Within the "unextendable term" of 30 days, the Yaiza City Council will have to determine if the Princesa Yaiza hotel, owned by businessman Juan Francisco Rosa, is legalizable or not with the new General Plan in force. This has been agreed by the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands, within the procedure of execution of the ruling that declared this hotel illegal.
The Consistory, which is having to carry out these reports with all the illegal hotels in Playa Blanca, had requested an extension to present its opinion on the Princesa Yaiza. And the response from the Second Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the TSJC has arrived in a diligence dated January 28, in which it agrees to extend the term initially set, but only for 30 more days.
The City Council has to report on this execution and on the "procedures carried out by the Corporation for the full execution of what was resolved after the final approval of the new General Plan", which occurred in July 2014. In its report, the Consistory must say if the hotel fits into the planning and can be legalized by processing a new license, or if it should be demolished.
Two reports and a demolition order
For the moment, the City Council has already carried out the report of two of the hotels with annulled licenses in Playa Blanca. In the case of Son Bou, also owned by Juan Francisco Rosa, it has concluded that it has to be demolished totally or partially, since it triples the permitted buildability. From the Consistory they confirmed last week that this hotel does not conform to either the previous General Plan or the one that has been in force for a year and a half, despite the fact that the new document allows increasing the buildability by up to 50 percent in certain cases. For this reason, it has given the property one month to present a demolition project and one more month to execute it.
The other hotel on which the report has already been issued is the Rubicón, located in the Montaña Roja Partial Plan. In this case, the technical opinion concludes that it is legalizable and could obtain a new license. "It is not even necessary to apply the incentivized regulations on buildability," the mayor of Yaiza, Gladys Acuña, told La Voz. Now, to obtain the new permit, the property will have to comply with some procedures first, such as constituting a guarantee that guarantees the completion of the urbanization works that corresponded to it.
Regarding the rest of the illegal hotels in Playa Blanca, Acuña declared last week that there are still no definitive conclusions or deadlines to know them. "There is only one architect reporting, with the help of the drafter of the Plan," explained the mayor. Now, at least in the case of Princesa Yaiza, the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has already set the deadline to present that report.
