The Save La Tejita Association has filed a complaint against the Granadilla City Council before the Ombudsman for the construction of the new Sotavento Suites apartment complex, next to the Hotel de La Tejita, since earthworks began in May 2022 and construction has been underway since August the plot and a crane has been lifted and is in operation.
In June 2022, the Salvar La Tejita Ecological Association requested information from the City Council about the project license, since the work did not have the mandatory sign indicating the construction license number. According to the transparency laws, the City Council had 10 days to notify the denial of the request or 30 days to comply with it, but it did neither, according to the Association, which maintains that this is “an obvious cause for concern and suspicion that the license either does not exist, or presents serious irregularities”.
On September 20, Save La Tejita filed a complaint with the Canarian Agency for the Protection of the Natural Environment and the Court of Granadilla de Abona. Eight days later the work was inspected (from outside) by two ACPMN agents. Even so, according to the Association, “this inspection has not involved any type of control or stoppage of the works to date. The works continue without any license being shown.”
The Ecological Association has wanted to remind that the license for the Hotel La Tejita has been denounced for alleged irregularities and will soon go to court and ensures that the Granadilla City Council itself “tried to block this court hearing alleging that Salvar La Tejita had not appealed the license within 60 days of publication. However, a ruling ruled in favor of Salvar La Tejita because the City Council “never notified the Association of the license.”
For environmentalists, “another relevant detail is that both the mayor of Granadilla de Abona, José Domingo Regalado González, and the Councilor for Works, María Concepción Cabrera Venero, are charged under Art. 404 of the Penal Code – Administrative Violation and Art. 432 – Embezzlement of Public Funds (Denounced by the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office, Judicial Procedure No. 0000711/2021)”.
And in yet another case, a complaint against the mayor is being processed by Salvar La Tejita (Preliminary proceedings No. Procedure: 0000273/2021:- the possible existence of a crime against natural resources and the environment).
Salvar La Tejita warns that it will continue to take legal action against any construction or commercial activity that causes damage to the environment in the area and will use all available legal instruments and mechanisms to ensure that any politician, official, architect or businessman who tries to break the laws is face justice.
