The company Hotel Fariones Sociedad Anónima, chaired by Juan Francisco Rosa and owner of the Hotel Fariones, has submitted an application to the General Directorate of Coasts of the Government of the Canary Islands to install a kiosk and a terrace on Los Fariones beach, in front of the hotel of the same name, and on land of maritime-terrestrial public domain.
The Official Gazette of the Canary Islands published this Tuesday morning the application submitted by the Lanzarote businessman to the Ministry of Public Works, Housing and Mobility. The project will be on public display for twenty days, and objections may be registered during that period.
Specifically, the businessman wants to install a twenty-square-meter kiosk, in addition to a terrace area of another 44 square meters to place 44 chairs and ten umbrellas. In this space, he wants to install a prefabricated kiosk with a bar and a space to sell drinks, fruit, ice cream, and packaged products. In total, the space intends to occupy 64 square meters of maritime-terrestrial public domain. He also requests to improve the existing wall in the area.
In the project report, the consulting firm responsible for its drafting acknowledges that this space suffers "high pressure of use" and requests authorization for four years, between 2026 and 2030. However, in the publication of the Government of the Canary Islands, the request is reduced to two years.
The investment contemplates an expense of 73,702, including VAT, although in the Canary Islands IGIC is applied. Of these, the majority, around 51,800 euros, will be allocated to the kiosk itself, 330 for waste management, and 1,600 for the safety and health study, as well as 4,000 euros to improve the wall.
A profit of more than 208,000 euros in four years
The project estimates that, in net profits, deducting expenses, the property will reach up to 208,340 euros in four years. Meanwhile, the estimated fee it should pay to Costas will be 2,980 euros per month, around 11,920 euros.
This beach, located between Playa Chica and Playa Grande, also known as Playa de Enmedio, was the subject of controversy a few years ago. The same Juan Francisco Rosa built a restricted access hammock and umbrella area on it and wanted to charge the public ten euros to enter, despite the fact that beaches in Spain are public.
Those works were carried out without the authorization of Costas and ended up being sanctioned for occupying public maritime-terrestrial domain land. Then, Rosa requested the transfer of 120 square meters of public land on this beach for 75 years. The General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea rejected the request and then insisted that "it does not redound to the common good," nor does it respond to "the general interest, but rather quite the opposite."
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