The Cabildo of Lanzarote is going to ask the courts to demolish the framework of the construction of the hotel on plot 216 of Costa Teguise that is currently paralyzed, after the owner decided to stop a construction that generated considerable controversy after the complaints filed by the Canarian Socialist Party (PSC) at the beginning of this legislature when they were in the opposition. This was confirmed this Monday by the Minister of Territorial Policy and Environment, Carlos Espino, who stated that the legal services of the First Corporation are the ones who have suggested that action be taken in this regard, demanding that the area be restored as it was if the promoters do not intend to execute the project.
It is no coincidence that the Cabildo is acting in this way. In fact, there are many neighbors who cannot explain that a promoter can start a construction as large as a hotel, make the corresponding earth movements, fence off the entire area and cause all kinds of urban and environmental disturbances to suddenly stop and leave everything in a mess. That is the image that the construction in question gives at the moment, which is located at the entrance of the tourist center of Teguise and which causes a very negative visual effect for visitors and residents. The logical thing, despite the lawsuits filed between one and the other, is that there is a construction deadline so that it is finished or everything is left as it was, as happens to any neighbor. This is not the case of the plot next door, the 214, which is the only one that currently has a stop order from the courts.
Espino, who traveled to Las Palmas this Monday to attend a meeting of the Commission for Territorial Planning and the Environment of the Canary Islands (COTMAC), agreed with all those who have complained about the bad image that is being given by a construction that was paralyzed because the promoters of the project determined it, who moved quickly at the moment when they thought they might have problems due to the constant socialist complaints against them and who finally, when they saw that everything was in vain, seem to have slowed down the project. "I am not going to say that it occurred to me, because it is not so, since it has been the legal team that has recommended initiating the pertinent actions to recover the previous situation," he commented.
In any case, the Minister of Territorial Policy lamented the problems that his department continues to encounter in dealing with issues of this type, hence he pointed out as a priority to seek "a greater impulse or a greater reinforcement" to shield a legal team that is not enough. "We cannot at this time monitor all the lawsuits filed and monitor the study of the declassification of the 30,000 beds. For the moment we are going to give priority to the issues we have on the table, but we will not forget about issues like this one," he stressed forcefully.
Controversial plot
Both Playa Blanca and Costa Teguise are giving the Cabildo numerous headaches. In the case of the tourist area of La Villa, this plot in particular is the one that has given the most to write and talk about in recent months. The latest that is known is that the Cabildo asked the courts that while the administrative file arrived and the lawsuit regarding that hotel was formalized, the works be suspended because it would be easier to eventually demolish what was built if the sentence finally gives the reason to the Cabildo and declares the works in question illegal. This request was rejected by the courts, considering 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 promoter and the Teguise City Council are aware that the permits with which they are building have been seriously questioned by the Cabildo.
On the other hand, the general secretary of the PSC, Manuel Fajardo, recently showed his surprise at the lack of news he has had from the senator of the Popular Party (PP) for the province of Almería, María del Mar Agüero, senator who said that she was going to file a lawsuit against him for having linked her and her husband to an urban operation in Teguise in which the names of distinguished leaders of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote (PIL) and a local television that has already disappeared such as Tele Volcán also came out. Specifically, the leader of the socialists did not understand that she made him work so hard to prepare his defense when in reality all that the popular politician intended was to win some press headlines.
In this way, he said he was perplexed by something that everyone has seen, and that is that the works of that hotel in Costa Teguise have suspiciously stopped once all the commotion caused by the PSC itself when it was in the opposition of the Cabildo has passed.
