José Francisco Reyes hid from the Cabildo two urban licenses for the construction of 10 chalets within the Playa Blanca Partial Plan. These two licenses, dating from November 2005, were granted to the company Marivista Lanzarote S.L., of which Pedro de Armas Sanginés is the owner, general secretary of the Lanzarote Nationalist Party (PNL) and current candidate for mayor of Arrecife. It so happens that Pedro de Armas and the mayor of Yaiza share the same party in which José Francisco Reyes is vice president and current candidate for the PNL for mayor of the municipality he already governs.
Both licenses were not among the approximately 400 building permits corresponding to the years 2001-2005, which the Yaiza City Council notified to the Cabildo on April 7, 2006, as required by a final judgment of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, which has subsequently been confirmed by the Supreme Court.
The lack of knowledge of the existence of these two licenses for the First Institution is evident in the Presidency resolution 2.237/06 issued on June 5, 2006, which includes a list of the licenses that Yaiza had granted in the Playa Blanca Partial Plan between November 2004 and December 21, 2005, among which there is no trace of Pedro de Armas' licenses because they had not been notified by the Yaiza City Council like the rest.
Among the licenses that the secretary of the Yaiza City Council notified to the Cabildo of Lanzarote, there were about fifteen permits granted to build homes in the Playa Blanca Partial Plan and all of them were appealed through the courts by the First Institution, which considers said Partial Plan annulled. All except these two, which for the Cabildo did not exist because they had been hidden, in such a way that today, the deadline to appeal both permits expired months ago.
An Extinguished Partial Plan
The mayor of Yaiza signed on November 14, 2005 a resolution by which he granted to the well-known construction developer and general secretary of his party Pedro de Armas Sanginés representing the company Marivista Lanzarote S.L, a license to build 10 single-family homes on plot R.17-A. Eight days later, he authorized the start of earthmoving in the area.
At that time, José Francisco Reyes knew that the Playa Blanca Partial Plan was considered by the Cabildo as extinguished after the Law of Urgent Measures of the Government of the Canary Islands came into force in June 2001. This Law establishes that all developable land that, even with an approved partial plan, had not completed its urbanization by that date (June 2001), are extinguished due to non-execution, thus becoming rustic land. This is the case of the Playa Blanca Partial Plan, since it did not begin to be urbanized until December 2003.
From that moment on, not a single house can be built on the land that makes up the Playa Blanca Partial Plan, although it is up to the Special Territorial Plan (PTE), whose approval continues to be postponed, to include in its text that the plan is extinguished and thus prevent further construction. As the PTE has not yet been approved, the Plenary of the Cabildo decided to provisionally suspend the granting of licenses for that plan on May 29 since, although it had urged José Francisco Reyes to stop the urbanization works that he had been carrying out since December 2003 on the land, the mayor had not heeded the request of the island government. In addition, the Playa Blanca Partial Plan was fully appealed by the Cabildo in January 2004.
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