The work on the wall of the TF-333, at the height of La Montaña, in the municipality of Los Realejos, it has been resumed in application of the ruling favorable to the Royal City Council. In November, the Administrative Contentious Court number 2 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife agreed with the City Council by declaring null the paralysis by the Tenerife Council of the replacement and containment work of the collapsed wall on the TF-333.
The problem arises in November 2019, when a part of the wall falls, privately owned. This section of road is closed to traffic to ensure safety. Three months later, the owners of the wall begin the work, after receiving the municipal license, but a few days later the Cabildo de Tenerife Highway area stops it by requesting a three-meter setback to make a sidewalk. It is a work that the municipal General Management Plan (PGO) does not allow, alleges the City Council. Justice fails in favor of Los Realejos, so the works have been able to restart.
The mayor of Los Realejos, Manuel Dominguez, and the councilor for Urbanism, Laura Lima, verified in situ the resumption of the works after the aforementioned sentence was issued and the term available to the Cabildo to appeal the ruling has already been fulfilled, without finally having done so, as announced by the island president, Pedro Martín, to the residents of La Montaña, thus complying with the judicial decision and the position defended by the municipal government.
According to Manuel Domínguez, they have been more than two years in which the Los Realejos City Council «put up to seven solutions on the table protected by law to allow the execution of the wall and opening of the road as soon as possible and we always found the obstacle of one of the parts that we all know ». “The resumption of the works as we proposed already sees the light and we hope that it continues its course for the good of all those citizens who have been suffering it day in and day out,” he explained.
Laura Lima, for her part, publicly thanked “the tireless work” of the technical team of the Municipal Urban Planning Management and the legal services of the City Council “always looking for a solution and, when there seemed to be none, finding new alternatives, always encountering a negative to lift the work stoppage and having to resort to justice, which has finally proved right.
