Judge María Concepción Pérez-Crespo annuls a fine of 190,000 euros imposed by the Arona City Council, in April 2021, to the company that built the El Camisón beach shopping center. The substitute judge of the Administrative Litigation Court Number 4 of Santa Cruz de Tenerife considers that the Aronero Consistory, which at the time of imposition of theFine was governed by José Julián Mena (PSOE)lacked elements to conclude that some work carried out in the shopping center was carried out without a municipal license and invading the maritime-terrestrial public domain, the area closest to the sea where any action is prohibited without an extraordinary permit from the General Directorate of Coasts.
The developer of the El Camisón building, Melisofi Consulting SL, first appealed to the City Council against the sanctioning file for very serious misconduct. The mayor, José Julián Mena, rejected the appeal in a resolution issued on November 4, 2021. The company then went to court to defend that it was minor work – contribution of land in an area outside the building – that was not They contravened neither the municipal nor the national urban planning regulations related to the protection of the coast. The judge has now agreed with Melisofi Consulting, in a ruling signed last Monday, and annuls the fine of 190,000 euros. “In the administrative sanctioning file there is no technical report that accredits the execution of works constituting the infringement,” María Concepción Pérez-Crespo concludes in the ruling.
The building, located on the maritime avenue of Los Cristianos, is officially called Arts Lifestyle & Shopping Tenerife, a cultural and commercial center built between the beaches of Las Vistas and El Camisón, on what is known as the Domínguez house. In June 2017, after its inauguration, the Urban Planning area of the Arona City Council sealed it for irregularities related to easements and setbacks. He demanded works to reestablish legality, including the demolition of some structures.
These actions that deserved the sanction now annulled by Justice had nothing to do with the restoration of legality. The shopping center remains closed, pending adaptation to urban planning regulations to be able to reopen its doors and another judicial investigation. In 2021, the same month as the fine was imposed, the Provincial Prosecutor’s Office of Santa Cruz de Tenerife filed a complaint after seeing signs of an alleged urban planning crime in the construction of this building, as reported by Mírame TV and Canary Islands Now.
