The Teguise City Council has announced that it will take charge of the demolition of one of the illegal skeletons of Costa Teguise, specifically in plot 214, "which houses a concrete skeleton, an unfinished construction in the name of Lanzagal Promotores, given the refusal of the property owner."
According to the Council, the company has alleged that the ruling that declared the construction illegal "annulled the license, but did not make any mention of a possible conviction"; therefore, it has shown its "absolute disagreement" with the decree of the mayor, Oswaldo Betancort, in which he urged them to demolish the skeleton.
The announcement comes after the various warnings that the Courts have made to the mayor, even threatening him with personal fines, for not having executed the various rulings on the skeletons in more than a decade.
"After a long judicial process, and always in order for the owners to pay for its demolition and not represent a decrease in municipal funds, finally, the property owner has refused to comply with the demolition request and the deadline given by Teguise, therefore, we will undertake the pertinent actions to carry out the demolition”, said the head of Urban Planning and Technical Office of the Teguise City Council, Olivia Duque.
“The municipal Technical Office is already working on the procedures to contract a demolition project for one of the abandoned works that has brought the most collateral problems due to the illegal occupation of people inside”, added Duque. "All avenues have been exhausted so that it would not be the taxpayers who bear this burden, even at the risk of warnings of fines against the personal assets of the mayor of Teguise himself, and I am aware that our municipal legal services have acted with diligence and maximum respect for the law and the deadlines”, she defended.
The City Council recalls that in May of this year "the demolition of another urban skeleton, located on plot 210 of Costa Teguise, in the vicinity of the La Mareta residence, was already carried out, thanks to the commitment of the company Armadores de Puerto Rico S.A., by means of a letter addressed to the Teguise City Council, returning the plot to its original state decades later."
Likewise, they recall that the City Council "learned a few weeks ago of the intention to demolish another of the unfinished constructions in Costa Teguise, owned by the company Promontoria Coliseum Real Estate, which presented to the Teguise City Council a project for the demolition of the skeleton of plot 242-B, with which the order issued by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands will be made effective in view of its illegality."
"The collateral effect of the occupation"
"One of the collateral effects that the abandonment of these unfinished properties has entailed is the illegal occupation of them", they emphasize from the Council, which affirms that the mayor "has spoken about the seriousness of the problem, demanding forceful solutions."
“We are in permanent contact with the State Security Forces and Corps to prevent these private properties from being illegally occupied and the solution is not in the hands of local entities, but rather that the law and justice be as forceful as they can be”, considers Betancort, questioning “the scarce protection of private property, something evident since it is a national problem that they have not been able to tackle.”
“The failure in the management of illegal occupation throughout Spain is an absolute absurdity, because the law is not applied, acting to the detriment of the owners”, considers Betancort. "And another palpable failure is that they have not been able to promote social housing either, and as an example we can talk about the null promotion of these houses throughout the Canary Islands and, of course, on the island of Lanzarote”, he denounces.
