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The residents of Ten-Bel, at risk of losing power again

January 12, 2022
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Neighbors who reside in the 162 apartments of the Eureka community of owners warn of the serious risk of being left without electricity again as of tomorrow. Have a hard time have the 4,000 euros that they must pay each week (16,000 euros per month) for rent and diesel for the generator sets to work of those that obtain the light from one o’clock in the morning of last December 30.

The light returns to Ten-Bel after the urgent installation of generators

The light returns to Ten-Bel after the urgent installation of generators

Ten hours before, more than 1,500 families (more than 4,000 people) were without electricity in the six communities that make up Ten-Bel: Primavera, Bellavista, Drago, Carabela and Palia don Pedro, as well as the Alborada aparthotel. The service cut was made by the Endesa company due to the debt of almost one and a half million euros that the company that manages this privately owned complex maintains with the electricity company. Debt and supply cut “that he did not communicate to the communities.”

With the mediation and management of the Arona City Council, incompetent in this area as it is an urbanization not yet received by the municipal Administration, the emergency and provisional measure applied was the installation of generators. “A very expensive solution that the communities must pay for. Not counting the environmental damage that this means. Communities that always paid the consumption to Ten-Bel, holder of the supply contract to all the urbanizations ”, recalls Luca Mastrantonio, president of one of the housing blocks.

4,000 euros a week is the cost for a rental community and diesel for the generator

“All communities want to pay their bills” for electricity consumption “and strongly demand that the supply be restored,” explains who also understands that in the current situation “thousands of owners are in a condition of deterioration of personal dignity and of his only property in which to live.

Fees and taxes, plus water

Mastrantonio explains that almost all the owners of the apartment communities “have paid the electricity bills” to the Ten-Bel manager, so they are still waiting for explanations about the destination of the amounts paid so far. Likewise, the residents of this urbanization of Costa del Silencio “pay municipal taxes and fees to the Arona City Council and water to the Canaragua company,” which was awarded the supply service. Aspect that leads those affected to seek the involvement of the municipal administration in the final resolution of this problem.

Along these lines, residents also value taking the actions they deem appropriate against the City Council “as jointly responsible for this unacceptable situation” that occurs “in the heart of the oldest tourist area of ​​Arona.”

Those affected are studying taking legal action due to the power outage of December 29

It so happens that the Arona City Council intervened, despite not having powers to act in a completely private urbanization, on December 29 (date of the power supply cut) to guarantee security in Ten-Bel, regulate traffic and collaborate in the search for an urgent solution. The mayor of Aronero, José Julián Mena, and some of his councilors collaborated with those affected. Even the municipal social services offered help for the cases of vulnerable people that comply with the conditions of the action protocols.



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Power outages in Ten-Bel
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The penultimate attempt

In mid-2018, and after multiple meetings and negotiations held between the property owners of the urbanization and those responsible for the Urban Planning area, the municipal government announced that “both parties” established the “roadmap” to be followed during the following months “to fully regenerate this area and that it can be received by the Arona City Council ».

The keys to this were the development of a topographic map of Ten-Bel by the property. A necessary document because the construction did not conform to what was projected in the decade of the sixties of the twentieth century. The property of the urbanization chose to carry out a substantial modification of the project. But what seemed like a solution at the time, has not materialized until now and the municipal government has repeatedly explained that they are waiting for the property to “do what it has to do” to make the reception of Ten-Bel possible. .

The company that manages the place, Ten Bel Turismo SL, entered bankruptcy on February 23, 2014 until April 21, 2020, the date on which the bankruptcy administrator was dismissed. During this period, several companies operated the complex.

  • Chronology of a pioneering urbanization

    1963. The beginning

    It was in 1963 that the construction of Ten-Bel began. The first of the complexes that make up Costa del Silencio was called Carabela, which would give way to Eureka, Bellavista, Géminis, Drago, Frontera, Primavera, Maravilla and Alborada. Altogether, it had about 5,200 tourist beds.

    Place name. Tenerife and Belgium

    Located next to Las Galletas, Ten-Bel takes its name from the combination of Tenerife and Belgium, as decided by its creator and promoter, Belgian Michel Albert Huygens. Today this space has also derived the name Costa del Silencio, as it appears in tourist promotions.

    What it was. There was everything

    In its 80,000 square meters it has shopping centers, several public parks, sports facilities, pharmacy, gas station, post office, banks, shops, bars and restaurants.

    A new concept. Vacations city

    When it was built and entered into service in the 70s of the last century, Ten-Bel became the first great commercial center in the south of the Island. Over time it came to be considered the first “vacation city”, having taking into account its size and endowment, as well as the fact that it functions as an autonomous enclave within the municipality.

    2002. The great decline

    Michel Albert Huygens, the founder, died in 2002. Thereafter the decline of the place accelerated. His heir, a daughter, sold the development.

    The change. Residential use

    From a reference tourist destination in the 80s of the previous century, Ten-Bel became an area of ​​apartments with notable deficiencies and a level of deterioration and very worrying abandonment. This, despite the fact that the Arona census registered more than 7,000 inhabitants in this enclave, only a five-year period ago.

    Cuts. First, the water

    At the end of June 2017, there was a breakdown in the water supply network while the supply was in the hands of a private company due to the conditions of Ten-Bel.



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