This requirement coincides in time with the delivery, by Vigilia Tenerife Sur, of an eviction notice letter to the residents relocated in eight apartments. The next day 31 must leave these accommodationss for “the total non-payment of the rent of the apartments by the Santiago del Teide City Council”, as stated by the Management in the document received by those affected. Debt that covers the entire time elapsed since the day the collapse took place.
It was on February 26 when a partial collapse of Virgen del Carmen street “due to the excavation and reinforcement of a wall”, which caused “a mismatch, producing an emptying of the filling of the street”, according to the municipal technical services. This work is part of the construction of a building with 30 homes and garages that was being carried out at number 23 Calle Sol –parallel to the affected one–, which has the mandatory municipal license. This situation put the properties located between numbers 9 and 19 of Virgen del Carmen street at risk.
The mayor, Emilio Navarro, explains that the situation of non-payment is due to inconveniences that have arisen with the promoter, which through the request is also warned that “the forecast of pending expenses” to culminate the restitution and adaptation of the road amounts to another 400,000 euros. In addition, the administrative procedure continues its course in such a way that the councilor hopes to start paying the outstanding amounts “shortly”. It should be remembered that when the company did not pay the rents, the Santiago del Teide City Council took over the management. “To this end, a budget modification was unanimously approved,” he recalls Canary Coalition (CC), a political group that requires the local government “to pay the amounts to the hotel complex as soon as possible,” according to the nationalists in a statement made public yesterday.
Emilio Navarro hopes that twenty residents will be able to return to their homes in the course of the next few weeks. “The objective is that they do it with all the guarantees and with security,” he adds. The mayor of Santiago explains that the return to their homes of those who have been away from them for more than seven months takes place with Virgen del Carmen street also in the right conditions to travel through it, he concludes.
