The license of the family home in Arrieta of the mayor of Haría, José Torres Stinga, has been annulled in the second instance by the Court of Administrative Litigation of Las Palmas. The mayor himself has explained that Justice has only found "a material error, because what appeared in the plans did not correspond to the project report." Torres Stinga has assured that this "error" can be easily corrected, so he has assured that he is "very calm".
The mayor explained that this complaint was filed in 2001 by the owner of a restaurant in Arrieta that had been sealed by the City Council. "This man claimed that I myself had granted the license for the family home in 1997, when I was not even mayor of Haría," said Torres Stinga.
After receiving this complaint, the Torres Stinga family obtained the corresponding detailed study, the favorable reports from the General Directorate of Coasts, the Government of the Canary Islands and the license from the Haría City Council. All these documents were presented in court, which in the first instance ruled in favor of the mayor of Haría.
However, the owner of the Arrieta restaurant appealed and, in the second instance, the Court found an error in the project, in the detailed study. "With that error they have been crushing me", said José Torres Stinga, who has acknowledged that therefore the license is annulled. In this sense, he explained that his family had no choice but to present at the time an individual detailed study on the plot, since the one of the city council had been suspended as a precautionary measure by the Supreme Court, because it had been appealed by Coasts.
Subsequently, "the Court ruled in favor of the City Council and from that moment the new planning came into force", which "has the same conditions" as the one presented individually by the Torres Stinga family to obtain all the permits for their house in Arrieta. Therefore, now Torres Stinga, who has the possibility of appealing the ruling, will ask the Court to admit his detailed study, since it "has the same application" as that of the northern Consistory.
For the mayor of Haría, this type of complaint falls within the "harassment and demolition campaign" that "some" have undertaken against him. "I have been denounced for an exchange that was made in 2000 and for a reclassification of a green area that was made by the previous mayor. And it is always the same people who are behind it", criticized the mayor.
