The mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, pointed out yesterday that the possibility of the Government of the Canary Islands buying from the City Council the hotel plot that the Consistory owns in Cabo Llanos is on the table, an operation, he affirmed, with which “there is no issue”. However, he clarified that “the Government has the right to tell us that it wants to buy that plot and we to tell it what it costs, that is, that they buy it based on what it costs now, as tourist land. The City Council cannot lose money, because what we are not going to admit is that the urban conditions of the plot are changed to lower its value and then buy it”.
The mayor refers to the modification of the planning in Cabo Llanos, in which the use of some plots has to be changed to build the City of Justice. The hotel would be destined for the new headquarters of the Ministry of Health or the Multiple Use Building III, the two new buildings that the Government wants to build there. The approximate value of that land is 30 million.
“The arrangement was agreed upon and it was said, we are going to do something for the City of Justice. Then they have expanded to more things that no longer have to do with the initial objective. We say that it seems good to us, but the Government has to pay what it is worth, and before its value is modified, ”said the councilor. Bermúdez added that, “if that were the intention (to change the use before buying), it would lead us to a confrontation and we would go to court to defend the right of Santacruceros and Santacruceras, because it is something that we can allow.”
