The judge of the Court of First Instance (former Investigating Court) Number 4 of Arona has completed the investigation phase of the so-called Arona 2 caseafter investigating the alleged irregular concession of more than a hundred of urban planning permits by the City hall between December 2006 and May 2011coinciding with the stage of José Alberto González Reverón (Canary Coalition) in the Mayor’s Office.
The judicial order describes up to 95 administrative resolutions adopted, supposedly, in an “arbitrary and prevaricating” manner, after another 17 were dismissed. The order was initially appealed before the judge and later before the Provincial Court, a body that has dismissed the appeal made by the defenses of the 14 investigated, based on an alleged violation of the guarantees of the rights of their clients, considering, therefore, that the process must continue.
Once the investigation phase by the Court of First Instance Number 4 of Arona has finished and the reform and appeal resources have been rejected, the order issued on September 1, 2021 is already firm and will now be transferred to the private accusations and the Prosecutor’s Office so that they formulate their indictments and in this way the procedure can continue its course until it leads to the trial, still without a date.
The court brief specifies that the Governing Board of the Arona City Council granted “multiple planning licenses without respecting the established procedures, legally or by regulation, adopting decisions contrary to those that would proceed by law.”
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The order details in 84 pages the 95 licenses granted in an allegedly irregular way by the Local Government Board. The majority correspond to major works to construct buildings in different areas of the municipality with unfavorable reports from the Urban Planning Service or without the pronouncement of this body. In other cases, these concessions were carried out without complying with the requirements on territorial and urban planning or without completing the reports of the technicians, or with the warning of the Urban Planning Service to condition the granting of the license to the simultaneous completion of the urbanization. and the building, according to the car.
Permits were also granted without the mandatory proposal of the head of service, without the prior authorization of the Cabildo or without the management unit being managed or the urbanization works received. In the case of minor works, the majority that appear in the car received municipal authorization without the existence of the mandatory proposal for an agreement from the legal area of the Urban Planning Service.
The judge concludes that “we are not facing a specific divergence in a license, but rather a significant number of licences, in an action that has lasted for years.”
The granting of numerous licenses in action units without urban management (without the approval of the reparcelling project) and without the promoters complying with their obligations to develop and assign public spaces has generated serious problems for residents, who currently continue to pay the consequences. in the form of deficient public lighting, sanitation, water connections and unpaved roads.
