The first Deputy Mayor of the Teguise City Council and head of the Technical Office, Rita Hernández, spoke a few weeks ago on Radio Lanzarote - Onda Cero to explain the urban situation of the Los Noruegos bungalows in Caleta de Famara after La Voz revealed a complaint filed with Seprona for irregularities in some homes.
In addition, the Councilor of the Local Police of Teguise, Ginés González, confirmed to this editorial team that there are several urban planning files open for the works carried out in different Famara bungalows for not respecting the physiognomy of the urbanization.
During her speech, Rita Hernández added that "the Police have done their job and files have been opened with all the complaints that have arrived. There are many, there are several disciplinary files open, I didn't count them, but there are quite a few. When we saw the news I went to the department and they told me that there are a lot", explained Hernández during her speech.
In the morning show Buenos días, Lanzarote Rita Hernández revealed that after these files "there is a process that, unfortunately, is long". At the same time, she insisted that, in her view, she would not go into who the owners are.
In this line, the head of the Technical Office pointed out that most of the open files are prior to these last six months and that there is "some other" that has been opened in the last semester. At the same time, she added that this area of the island is not the only one affected by irregular works. Thus, she exemplified that the same thing happens in other areas of the municipality, such as Costa Teguise.
"When we talk about urban planning discipline, we talk about the meters, the buildability, the buildable volume. In Costa Teguise we want to cover terraces, expand, put a garage in the garden and that is volumetry and it is not legal", explained Hernández.
"I imagine that everything that is outside the law and can be legalized can be legalized, but what is not, well, that's what demolition orders are for," said the deputy mayor of Teguise. However, these processes usually extend in time and take "between ten and fifteen years".
On the other hand, Hernández took advantage of her intervention to clarify the delays that exist in the technical office, where it takes between two and three years to resolve any procedure.
"Well, people talk and they don't talk well about it. I was one of those who also criticized this part. Now I find that where they are really taking that amount of time, not all of them, but most of them are in Caleta de Famara and Caleta de Sebo". Construction in both places is subject to mandatory reports, from environmental documents to the approval of Coasts or the Government of the Canary Islands.
The first deputy mayor of Teguise explains that from January 1 to September 30, 2023, 1,800 entries were registered in the Technical Office. "It's a barbarity, although not all of them are licenses, but they have to go through the hands of the technicians," she explained.
At the same time, the Teguise City Council is trying to find new formulas to speed up some procedures. In this case, a person from the Technical Office does the verification, determines if documentation is missing and thus prevents it from going through the technician. "Logically I need a little more time. We hope that at the beginning of the year we can," she insisted.
To conclude and looking ahead to the beginning of this year, the Technical Office plans to create a Unit of Surveyors and Engineers to speed up the area.
