The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, spoke this past Tuesday on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to explain the situation of the Son Bou hotel in Playa Blanca. Last year, the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands asked the southern representative why the partial demolition of this establishment had not been carried out to comply with the 2005 court ruling.
This hotel, owned by Lanzarote businessman Juan Francisco Rosa, had its license revoked for infringing urban regulations and the requirements for obtaining the license because it triples the permitted building volume. Back in 2016, the Yaiza council ordered the "total or partial" demolition of Son Bou, although the developer has not yet carried it out.
In this regard, the mayor of Yaiza reported on the morning show Buenos días, Lanzarote that they are "already taking steps to commit to the subsidiary execution", but assured that "the execution project is not easy because there are several options." Thus, he explained that they have a team of architects to indicate "the ways" of action "that can be carried out".
Noda indicated that "even if I already have the execution project, I cannot go in there and demolish without further ado, I will have to at least, in some way, tell the property: I have that project, I am going to execute it." To which he added that "we are going to focus on it that way because the property has not paid attention, what has been presented does not comply and of course, I am the one being held responsible."
The developer had to try to legalize the tourist establishment through a new license. However, the council concluded that it was impossible to legalize it because it had exceeded the permitted building volume by up to three times more. In this case, if businessman Juan Francisco Rosa opted for partial demolition, he would have to demolish two-thirds of the hotel.
Meanwhile, he added that the Princesa Yaiza hotel, also owned by Juan Francisco Rosa, "remains the same." Noda indicated that "at the time they presented a demolition project of the areas that had to be uncovered or acted upon, practically not even half was acted upon, the technicians visited and effectively it did not comply and still does not comply. If that total execution had been done, it would surely be legalized today, but it is not."
