The Fifth Section of the Provincial Court of Santa Cruz de Tenerife This week hosted the trial of this case, now seen for sentencing, which has its origin in the complaint filed with the Prosecutor’s Office, in March 2012, by a worker from the Icod de los Vinos City Council. The indictment of the Prosecutor’s Office indicates that the then Head of Works, Heritage and Contracting of the Icod City Council, “once the availability of the land affected by the planned action has been assured, issues a mandatory report of a legal nature in which it deliberately omits the duty imposed by the resolution of the Historical Heritage Area of the Island Council of Tenerife and proposes to the resolution body to approve the budgeted expenditure of 29,000 euros and award the works as they were originally conceived, without any safeguarding of the integrity of the original retaining wall or of traditional alignments and flush lines ”. Subsequently, the aforementioned exedil “issued a decree in which he approved the budgeted expense for the work and its award, even knowing that the legal articles that required to ensure the integrity of the original wall, which was made of exposed dry stone, were not being complied with.”
After the demolition of the wall and the widening and paving of Calle San Antonio, “a new stepped concrete wall 47 meters long and two meters high was built, interrupted by several openings with metal doors, without any aesthetic quality that has generated a negative transformation of the historical complex in that place and that also implied the variation of the old alignment, withdrawing 1.5 meters from its original configuration “, concludes the Prosecutor’s Office.
