The Yaiza City Council has opened five sanctioning files and has ordered the stoppage of works in 12 homes in Playa Blanca, which were being carried out without a license. Four of the homes belong to individuals and the other eight belong to the company Varesa Tías SA. In almost all cases, including the homes of this company, the complaints were filed by the Local Police themselves, who between September and November 2015 presented four reports.
The fifth file arises from a complaint that was registered in the Consistory in June 2015. In that case, it is the extension of a house located at number 17 Caleta de Sebo street in Playa Blanca. As for the eight homes of the same company, they are located on plot A-19 of the Castillo del Águila Urbanization. According to the police report, new door openings were being opened, the structure was being expanded and the pool area was being repaired, among other things, without a qualifying title.
Another of the homes filed is located in the Las Terracitas urbanization number 18, on La Palma street, where an extension of the house was being carried out without a license. As for the other two, one is on Playa de la Cruz street number 26 and the other in the Carlos Park residential, house 48. In the first, the terrace was being extended without permission and in the second, the terrace was being closed with glass carpentry and covering the existing pergolas with a 'sandwich panel'.
Legalization or demolition
In all five cases, the City Council has already opened files for the restoration of urban planning legality and, since it cannot personally notify those affected, it has published the corresponding announcement in the Official Gazette of Las Palmas this Monday. In those announcements, the immediate suspension of the works is ordered, in case they are still continuing.
In addition, the owners of the homes must apply for a license for these works within a maximum period of two months. In the event that this cannot be granted, because the works do not conform to urban planning or because "the possible legalization is manifestly inappropriate", the City Council would then order the demolition and the "restoration of what was illegally modified".
In the event that the promoters do not stop the works while the file is being completed, the resolution indicates that the Consistory will seal the works, as well as the machinery and materials that were being used. In addition, it warns that if the order to stop is not complied with, the Public Prosecutor's Office will be informed, "for the purposes of demanding the criminal responsibility that may be appropriate".