Justice has annulled the fine of 190,000 euros that the Arona City Council imposed on the developer of the El Camisón shopping center for carrying out works without a license. The Contentious Administrative Court number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife considers that the municipal corporation did not have sufficient elements to conclude that the work had been done without permission, according to what the newspaper has published. The day.
For this first sanction to be imposed, almost four years had to pass since the building was sealed, which violates municipal planning and the Coastal Law. The fine was imposed on the company Melisofi Consulting SL for a “very serious” urban planning violation. However, as advanced The day, For Judge María Concepción Pérez Crespo, the City Council had no elements to prove that the shopping center invades the maritime-terrestrial public domain.
The sanction against the developer was signed by former mayor José Julián Mena (PSOE), ten days after The Prosecutor’s Office will present a criminal complaint in court after seeing evidence of the commission of an alleged urban crime in the construction of the building.
In the sanctioning resolution, which imposes a fine of 190,000 euros on Melisofi Consulting SL, the City Council concludes that, following an inspection carried out in November 2020, it was detected that the company promoting the El Camisón shopping center was carrying out renovation works. urbanization that, in addition to not having a license, exceeded the limit of the plot and invaded the area of public maritime-terrestrial domain, without having the authorization of the Provincial Coastal Demarcation.
