The municipal government of Adeje declared part of the municipality’s land of primary public interest with the priority objective of building social housing. Although the final decision goes through the ratification of Tenerife Council and of Government of the Canary Islandsthe plenary agreement is a path that enables the development of 16 urban projects and the continuation of the work on the Cuna del Alma tourist complex (work paralyzed in December 2022), by partially affecting the land of El Puertito.
«What it is about is establishing guarantees so that investments and legal security work,” assured yesterday the mayor of Adeje, José Miguel Rodríguez Fragawho in statements to Radio Club Tenerife He maintained that the measure responds “to the elementary principle” that obliges the administration “to defend its own actions.” Along these lines, he explained that “this is land that has been qualified since before I was mayor, and look how it has rained,” so “there are some rights generated and consolidated there.”.
Supporter of “defending” the process of transformation that the area is experiencing, the councilor invited “whoever wants” to “pass” through El Puertito de Adeje to learn about the current situation of the place. «Saving El Puertito is putting all this in motion», rhe mused. At the same time, she clarified that, “establishing the priority” of building social housing in the plenary agreement, “if the snake appears, they must be stopped right now.” Fraga insisted that “we must begin to introduce a little common sense into this matter.”
It is worth remembering that the regional advisor of Ecological Transition, Mariano Hernandez Zapata, announced on September 20 the purpose of reopening the Cuna del Alma file in order to find a solution in order to give the tourism project another chance.
The mayor recalls that the land has been cataloged for years and that “there are consolidated rights”
The mayor recalls that the land has been cataloged for years and that “there are consolidated rights”
Cradle of the Soul, which promotes Segunda Casa Adeje SL, covers 437,000 square meters of the El Puertito de Adeje Partial Plan, with 146,091 square meters of buildable area and 4,428 beds. The formal act of laying the first stone of Cuna del Alma took place on May 5, 2022. With a planned investment of 350 million euros, the promoters propose a unique complex of 420 accommodation units, 1,800 beds and the forecast of generate 750 jobs. The work occupies 136,000 square meters of land classified as developable since 1982.
YesSeven months later, on December 2, the “total suspension” of the work took place due to the discovery of rock manifestations which were added to the first detected after several weeks of starting the work. Previously, on November 10, the General Directorate of Fight against Climate Change and Environment of the Government of Canary Islands provisionally paralyzed the construction of Cuna del Alma, upon noticing the presence of the sad snake plant (Echium triste), included in the Canarian Catalog of Protected Species. On July 27 of last year, the Second Section of the Administrative Litigation Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) prevented the resumption of the work, by rejecting the request for precautionary measures filed by the Adeje City Council against the aforementioned resolution of the aforementioned regional general directorate. “The damages that could be caused by agreeing to the intended suspension could indeed be irreparable,” the order states.
