The Teguise City Council could suspend the licenses granted to several developers who currently have paralyzed works in Costa Teguise. This was stated this Friday by its mayor, Juan Pedro Hernández, who is convinced that the bad image that hotels and accommodation complexes half-built offer to residents and visitors of the tourist center cannot continue any longer.
The mayor of La Villa was forceful when explaining the issue on the radio program Buenos Días Lanzarote. "They have to unblock the situation immediately, because what we cannot have in a tourist area are works that have started and are not finished for centuries," he said, assuring that "we are going to demand that the owners continue with the work because otherwise we will be forced to suspend the license they have."
Hernández acknowledged the problem currently posed by these works, especially from an aesthetic point of view. So much so that the tour operators themselves have already shown interest in the matter, because they see how the months pass, the years pass, and the image of the works remains the same, which certainly worries the municipal official a lot.
Containment of growth
Contrary to what one might think, taking into account the lawsuits he has filed in the courts of justice using the same lawyer who defends the Yaiza City Council, the former general secretary of the Arrecife City Council Felipe Fernández Camero, Hernández considers himself another defender of the containment of growth and sustainable development. He believes that Costa Teguise continues to be an example throughout the Canary Islands as an urban model, which is why he rejects the criticisms that have been made against the policy he has developed in recent years.
As an anecdote that supports the issue, he told of the conversation he had with Queen Sofía during her recent visit to the Island. Curiously, it was the Queen herself who asked him to keep Teguise as it is, and not to allow more beds to be built. "She was very interested in knowing all the details of the municipality, she wanted to know the current population, the number of beds... She asked us above all to conserve what we have and to avoid overcrowding, a matter on which I emphasized how respectful we are with the regulations and that Costa Teguise is not saturated," he explained.
