Both the Councilor for Territorial Policy of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Carlos Espino, and sources from the Island Plan Office of the Cabildo of Lanzarote have denied the information that appeared last Sunday in the newspaper from Gran Canaria "Canarias 7" in which said media assured that the Contentious-Administrative Court No. 1 of Las Palmas had issued a recent ruling in which it supposedly "considers legal the extension of the license granted by the Teguise council" to the hotel being built on plot 216 of Costa Teguise and that said alleged judicial resolution (which has now been clarified that it does not really exist) "undermines the Cabildo's appeal".
In view of the content of said journalistic information, the Cabildo sources have had to clarify that no sentence has been issued in the aforementioned appeal, nor has the appeal presented by the Cabildo been dismissed, adding that in the aforementioned judicial process the claim has not even been presented yet by the lawyers of the Island Council because the administrative file has not even been received in court yet, so we are facing "erroneous information that confuses what has really happened, which has nothing to do with what is stated in it".
And what has really happened is that the Cabildo requested the Court that while the administrative file arrived and the claim was formalized "the works of the denounced hotel be suspended because it would be easier to eventually demolish what was built if the sentence finally agrees with the Cabildo and declares the works in question illegal", to which the Court has considered that it is not necessary to stop the works because the execution of the sentence that is issued is fully guaranteed, even in the event that demolition is ordered, since both the developer and the city council are aware that the permits with which they are building have been seriously questioned by the Cabildo.
Same as in the case of Playa Blanca
The Cabildo sources consulted by lavozdelanzarote.com also pointed out that this type of judicial decision is common, specifying that it is agreed in that sense in approximately half of the cases without it meaning anything regarding the meaning of the future sentence that is issued. Thus, they cited as an example the recent ruling of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands of May 11, 2005 that upheld the Cabildo's appeal and annulled the licenses granted by the Yaiza City Council to an aparthotel in Playa Blanca, when in that case the court did not agree to suspend the works as a precaution either because - as happens here - it understands that the demolition is guaranteed by law.
