Three years is a long time. And, if it is a question of investment, an eternity, whether the affected party is an owner who simply wants to build a house or a developer who is going to allocate millions of euros to the construction of a development, to give just two examples. . It is not the first time that construction employers openly criticize the delays of years in reporting and granting, or denying, a major building permit.
However, the traffic jam in some places is monumental, according to the figures provided by the Administrations themselves and political leaders. In the case of Granadilla de Abona, which after Arona is the most powerful municipality in the region, both from an economic and population point of view, this bottleneck rises to three years, as revealed by its mayor, Jennifer Miranda (PSOE), a recent arrival, in a radio interview on Onda Tenerife.
This means that it takes a whopping thirty-six months from when an individual or a company requests to start up a project until authorization is received, the best deterrent there can be for any investor, since during that time does not know what the final verdict will be for your project. “We have found ourselves in a much more dramatic situation than I feared in the municipal technical services,” says this councilor who took office last June and who explains that one of her first tasks was “to make an exhaustive diagnosis of the real situation”, which has meant knowing that the traffic jam translates into 404 licenses pending reporting by the technical managers, both on rural and urban land.
“Right now the licenses that were presented in 2020 have begun to be reported, which means that the situation is serious, since that means that there are citizens who get tired of waiting for a municipal decision,” says the mayoress. Jennifer Miranda insists that “we are not talking about other procedures, but only license applications from neighbors who want to build their homes or from investors who are leaving Granadilla” to neighboring municipalities, such as San Miguel de Abona or others where the management situation is more agile, like Adeje. This reason has led the Granadilla de Abona City Council to implement a plan that, among other measures, has involved “a new criterion for resolution of the files that most affect the right to property”, as well as the creation of a group that is in charge of other simpler and easier procedures.
