The 14 illegal houses in La Bufona, which are subject to a demolition order for occupying protected rustic land, have "disappeared" from the Cadastre. The registration of these houses was denounced in its day by the Murillo family, who have been litigating in the courts for years to prove that these houses were built on land owned by them.
In 2013, the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands annulled the registration of these houses in the Cadastre, concluding, among other things, that they had been registered on "a fictitious street". Specifically, they are registered in Chubasquillo Street, when the only street that exists, and on which they are actually located, is Chabusquillo Street. However, that ruling was never executed, despite repeated requests from the Murillo family to the Cadastre Management.
Finally, on May 5, Gonzalo Murillo sent a new letter to the Delegation of Economy and Finance of the Canary Islands, warning that "another cadastral modification" had occurred in La Bufona. According to that letter, the change only affected the home of the insular president of the PP, Ástrid Pérez, whose plot became entirely "for residential use".
Until then, the houses appeared partly on residential land and partly (corresponding to a rear area where, among other things, the swimming pools are located) on protected rustic land. However, Murillo maintained that the popular leader's property had been modified and stressed that it was "the only one" that "had benefited from a cadastral alteration". "I cannot understand how a cadastral property of my ownership has been altered again, without the Cadastre Management of Las Palmas notifying me and without giving me a hearing in the administrative file," said Gonzalo Murillo, who even warned of the possible existence of a "crime".
A few days later, these houses disappeared from the electronic database of the Cadastre, which can be consulted online. Currently, none of the 14 affected houses in La Bufona appear in that database. Thus, the TSJC ruling, which in 2013 ordered the annulment of these cadastral registrations, could have been complied with three years later.
Late registration and on a "fictitious" street
Until the registration in the Cadastre in 2008, the buyers of these houses did not pay the corresponding taxes for these properties, as was revealed in the criminal trial held at the end of 2015 against the promoters of the urbanization. After the trial, held before the Criminal Court Number 3 of Arrecife, the promoter Federico Echevarría and the builder Antonio Caro were convicted of a continuing crime against land use planning.
In addition, that ruling ordered the partial demolition of 14 houses built in that partial plan, considering it proven that rustic land of natural ecological value was occupied. This judicial decision, appealed by the promoters, is added to the demolition order that had already been issued by the Agency for the Protection of the Urban and Natural Environment (Apmun). Currently, that resolution is also pending the appeals filed, in this case by the buyers of the houses, in the contentious-administrative jurisdiction.
At the same time, the Murillo family maintains other open fronts in the courts and in the administrative channel, with which it intends to be recognized as the true owners of the land that was occupied to build those houses.
