The City Council of La Laguna has informed this Thursday of the judicial ratification of the order of the Urban Planning Department to close the activity of an automotive company installed on a plot located in San Bartolomé de Geneto.
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Specifically, the Contentious-Administrative Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has dismissed the appeal of the company Tricampa Automotive Services against said order by the local corporation.
In a statement, the La Laguna Town Planning Department details that Tricampa occupies a plot that in the 1990s and during the first years of the new century was used as a vehicle depot until 2011, when its activity almost completely ceased, according to show the aerial images captured by Grafcan.
Between 2011 and 2016, the year in which it was acquired by the new owners, only a residual use of the plot can be seen, occasionally occupied by some vehicles.
But from then on, the old field activity is reactivated, which is complemented by a cleaning service and maintenance workshop, for which it expands the area of use by carrying out various urban actions, details the lagoon corporation in the note.
The different files opened against Tricampa by the Urban Planning Department reveal that neither the works carried out nor the activity carried out have a municipal license.
Although it tried to have a title of activity by presenting successive previous communications, all these titles declined in their effectiveness, since they did not have a fundamental prerequisite according to the Law of Classified Activities of the Canary Islands and the Land Law of the Canary Islands: the compatibility of urban use.
This fact led the Urban Planning Department to launch various procedures to restore the disturbed order and try to stop a clandestine activity that invades more than 100,000 square meters of land.
In addition, Urbanism emphasizes that “the clandestine activity was serving as an incentive to other companies with the same activity that intended to settle on land not suitable for this urban use.”
The mayor of Territory Planning and director of the Urban Planning Department, Santiago Pérez, stresses that this is “an unprecedented instruction, very detailed, which sets the priorities in this matter.”
It abounds in its importance because “in addition to having a pedagogical effect, it reinforces the moral authority of the administration: it cannot happen that the great urban planning infraction ends up unpunished, prescribing. Experience also teaches us that the great offender is very well advised legally”, he assures.
