EFE
The administrative litigation chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) has agreed to suspend the extension of the urban planning license that the Teguise City Council granted to a company for the construction of a five-star hotel in Costa Teguise.
According to the judicial resolution referred to in its publication by the EFE agency, the chamber agrees to suspend the extension of the building permit that the mayor of Teguise, Juan Pedro Hernández, granted on November 29, 2001, authorizing the construction of a new five-star hotel with a capacity for 470 places, on plot 216 of the Costa Teguise partial plan.
The ruling of the Canary court, which was notified this Tuesday to the parties in the process, upholds the grounds for appeal that were alleged by the defense of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, considering illegal [the extension of the building permit that the Teguise City Council granted to the hotel developer->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=377].
According to the order, "the project to which the extension of the building permit was granted no longer conformed at the time of granting the extension to the new urban planning existing in Lanzarote since the approval of the island moratorium, approved on May 22, 2000".
With this decision, the chamber upholds the legal arguments presented by the Cabildo in the appeal that the Lanzarote Corporation filed against a judicial order that had initially rejected the request for suspension of works that the First Lanzarote Corporation had filed at the time.
The judicial resolution of the TSJC known now revokes and renders without effect that judicial order, "agreeing in its place the suspension of the administrative act object of the appeal".
Complaint from the PSC-PSOE
The general secretary of the PSC-PSOE in Lanzarote, Manuel Fajardo, denounced last April the start of the construction works of the hotel "irregularly, with invalid permits and the passivity of the Teguise City Council", an entity that he accused of giving preferential treatment to the promoting company, Hoteles Playa.
Fajardo denounced the alleged existence of a real estate and media plot to which he assured that "the PP senator for Almería María del Mar Agüero and her husband, the businessman Rossell, responsible for Hoteles Playa, are linked and are responsible for the publishing company of the official body of the Party of Independents of Lanzarote, PIL".
Fajardo then denounced that, "coincidentally, the owner of the license illegally extended by the Teguise City Council is the president of Televolcán, a station that has been the official body of the PIL and of which the PP senator is part as a joint administrator".
The general secretary of the Lanzarote socialists also assured that "Rosell also appears as responsible for the publishing company of El Maho, which is a publication official body of expression of the PIL", a political formation to which the mayor of the municipality of Teguise belonged at that time.
After the complaint filed by the socialists, the Cabildo of Lanzarote commissioned the lawyer who directs the Corporation in urban planning matters, Agustín Domingo Acosta, to file an appeal against the permits granted by the Teguise City Council for the construction of the hotel and urgently request the precautionary suspension of the construction work in order to prevent the work from being completed.
Judicial sources pointed out that the order notified this Tuesday is extremely important for the urban future of the Island "since it gives the reason to the theses of the Cabildo and establishes the important doctrine that extensions of building permits can only be granted if the project conforms to the urban planning in force "at the time of requesting the extension".
