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The Councilor for Territorial Policy and Environment of the Cabildo, Carlos Espino, stated this Thursday that the Teguise City Council and the Island Council are working together with the aim of ensuring that the expiration of the paralyzed works of four hotels under construction in Costa Teguise is decreed.
Given this possibility, hinted at on Radio Lanzarote by the mayor of Teguise, Juan Pedro Hernández, Espino ratified that the Cabildo is "collaborating with the City Council and several of these licenses could be suspended in less than a couple of weeks".
According to the head of Territorial Policy of the First Corporation, "in principle, from the consultations we have made, we have to wait for the judicial procedures to conclude, and from there it will be when it is time to make decisions".
In the event that the courts do not side with the Cabildo, which has challenged several of these licenses by considering the extension of the building permit that the Teguise City Council granted to the promoters at the time to be illegal, the works would continue until the completion of the hotel establishments.
But if the Justice understood that the projects to which the extension of the building permit was granted no longer conformed, at the time these concessions were issued, to the new urban planning existing in Lanzarote since the approval of the island moratorium, approved on May 22, 2000, then it would be necessary to "restore the initial situation".
Among the skeletons of these currently paralyzed works is the [five-star hotel with 470 places->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=3301&var_recherche=hoteles+Costa+Teguise] linked to the businessman Rossell, responsible for Hoteles Playa and the publishing company of the official organ of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote, PIL, who is also the husband of the PP senator for Almería María del Mar Agüero, who once threatened to sue the secretary of the socialists in Lanzarote, Manuel Fajardo, after he denounced their involvement in a real estate and media plot.
Moratorium and precedents
The suspension of these licenses could set a precedent on the island of Lanzarote and, if this possibility finally materializes, these measures would speak quite well of the head of Urban Planning of the Teguise City Council, Domingo Cejas, and its mayor, Juan Pedro Hernández.
In this regard, Domingo Cejas himself wished that the paralysis of the works of these four hotels in Costa Teguise "be unblocked in 2006 for the good of the urbanization", and assured that the City Council "strictly complies with the moratorium of 2000".
"We are going to take to the plenary the correction of the subsidiary norms of Teguise, which were approved in its day partially, when Costa Teguise was suspended," said the councilor.
