The general coordinator of Podemos Canarias, Laura Fuentes, has requested the City Council of Adeje, the Cabildo de Tenerife and the Government of the Canary Islands to maintain the suspension of the works and to rectify the legal defects found in the review of the file of the Project Cradle of the Soul in the Port of Adejein the south of the island.
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Likewise, it has warned the three institutions involved in the development of the project that the failure to adopt immediate measures will make Podemos Canarias carry out the pertinent legal measures in the face of a situation that they consider “clearly unsustainable” and that “it cannot not last another day.”
At a press conference, Laura Fuentes insisted that the “obscurantism around this project, whose harmful nature has been officially recognized by the Cabildo itself, today presents a new and problematic flank, upon discovering the existence of legal rulings that could determine the nullity of the file.
Fuentes, who has been accompanied by María del Cristo González, councilor of the Cabildo de Tenerife and secretary of Institutional Action of Podemos Canarias; Gabriel González Fernández, councilor of the Adeje City Council and secretary of Civil Society of Podemos Canarias, and Manuel Marrero, spokesman for the Sí Podemos Canarias Parliamentary Group.
Podemos Canarias recalls that the review of the Cuna del Alma file reveals that the environmental report of the project (mandatory document for its approval) would be outside the regulations, since the preparation of this document, whose regulation is contemplated from Law 21/2013 of Environmental Evaluation, would have taken place taking as a reference legislation of the year 2006, already repealed at the time of beginning of the processing of the project.
Thus, Laura Fuentes indicated that this defect would not only affect the urban complex, but all the works carried out within its framework, including the connection road between Playa Paraíso and Costa Adeje, proposed as a structuring road for Cuna del Alma .
Fuentes recalled that on May 5 the works of the Puertito de Adeje project began, generating an enormous controversy that brought to the table the enormous ecological, social and patrimonial risks that this project brought with it.
He added that the works, which were initiated with two unfavorable reports against and without the necessary archaeological supervision, ended up being paralyzed in a precautionary manner when the existence of archaeological remains in the area was verified.
Laura Fuentes added that shortly after, the Cabildo de Tenerife recognized that Cuna del Alma would have irreversibly destroyed archaeological heritageindicating the commission of a very serious administrative fault by the promoter.
“Tomb of the Soul”
From Podemos Canarias, in view of this situation, they consider that the existence of legal vices in the project file “represents the coup de grâce for Cuna del Alma, an initiative that in its barely three months of existence has received a resounding rejection by part of neighbors, civil society and institutions, which have repeatedly highlighted its ecological, social and patrimonial infeasibility”.
“The macroproject, renamed by the citizens as Soul Tombrepresents the maximum expression of the destruction model, aimed at filling the pockets of millionaires at the expense of the islands, their people and their history”, insisted Fuentes.
To conclude, Podemos Canarias defends that the Archipelago “needs to definitively emancipate itself from this outdated model, which has been incapable for decades of offering more than precariousness, destruction of the territory and low wages, and move towards a horizon defined by sustainability, decent employment and generation of opportunities”.
Cuna del Alma intends to occupy 437,000 square meters of land with 420 residences, a hotel, swimming pools, a restaurant and other buildings that will be built very close to the Caleta de Adeje Protected Natural Area, declared of Scientific Interest due to its landscape relevance and the flora and the fauna that live there, and in the Teno-Rasca Special Marine Conservation Area.
Behind the project are two investment families from Belgium, Vandermarliere and Van Biervliet. Both have “a strong portfolio of real estate projects, both in Belgium and internationally,” the group highlighted the day the start of the works was staged.
In the first part of the urbanization, which has already started, 108 residences will be built, with 36 Casita Houses (from one to four bedrooms) from 85 to 129 square meters, 32 Beach Apartments (from one to three bedrooms) from 80 to 163 square meters, 20 Valley Villas (one to four bedrooms) from 139 to 349 square meters, 18 Grand Villas (three to four bedrooms) from 432 to 650 square meters, as well as a farm of 20,000 square meters, a beach club , a restaurant, a spa and a kids’ club.
