Following the two recent rulings of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands against the municipal licenses granted to a tourist complex in Costa Teguise and Playa Blanca, the reactions of the two mayors involved could not have been more disparate. José Francisco Reyes assures that the Cabildo only wants to paralyze the development of the south of Lanzarote while Juan Pedro Hernández hopes that many of the lawsuits will be withdrawn because the licenses comply with the parameters of the Island Planning Plan.
The reactions to the [words of the Councilor for Territorial Policy of the Cabildo, Carlos Espino->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=4756], differ according to the municipalities involved in the two latest rulings against a hotel in Playa Blanca and a tourist complex in Costa Teguise.
While for Espino, the court orders
demonstrate more than ever the validity of the Island Planning Plan of Lanzarote (PIOL), and destroy the arguments of the municipalities and promoters involved, the mayor of Yaiza, José Francisco Reyes, assured this Monday that in the end the intention that the Cabildo has always maintained with the southern Consistory will be demonstrated.
Despite not wanting to get into controversies, the mayor of Yaiza, José Francisco Reyes, explained that only "with the 20 judicial procedures that the Cabildo has filed against" the City Council, it is demonstrated that what the First Corporation has always intended has been to "paralyze Playa Blanca and, in general, the entire municipality". According to Reyes, such an extreme "is in plain sight of everyone".
For the southern mayor, Espino's reminder only foresees that time and justice will eventually demonstrate such persecution.
For his part, the mayor of Teguise, Juan Pedro Hernández, hopes "that the Cabildo will withdraw some of the appeals filed against several hotels in Costa Teguise as they fully comply with the PIOL".
Hernández recalled that the 157 apartments on plot 214 "are within that calculation of beds allowed by the revision of the Island Plan", and insisted that "if we did not request a report from the First Corporation in its day", it was because "we had not yet exceeded that ceiling of beds assigned to Teguise".
Both [sentences->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=4801] have been favorable to the theses held by the island's Cabildo in defense of the current model of tourist growth and have declared "the nullity of the licenses" granted by the municipalities of Yaiza and Teguise to two tourist establishments located in both municipalities, specifically the Hotel Son Bou (today an annex of the Hotel Princesa Yaiza) in Playa Blanca, and a complex of 157 apartments located on plot 214 of Costa Teguise.
Currently there are 27 pending procedures in which the Cabildo challenged hotel licenses, with a total of 12,528 tourist places affected, 3,565 from Costa Teguise, for the 8,963 from Playa Blanca.
