The Department of Sustainable City, Participation and Urban Agenda in the Puerto de la Cruz City Council initiates the procedures for the Administrative Litigation Court to grant authorization to carry out all pertinent actions after the declaration of imminent ruin of the property and which, as a final phase, contemplates the demolition of the Iders building.
David Hernández, councilor responsible for the area, made it public yesterday after issuing the decree of subsidiary execution and taking into account “the inaction of the owners once the property was declared imminent ruin by the City Council, on June 7, 2022». This was stated by the municipal government of Puerto de la Cruz in a statement issued yesterday.
In it, the City Council explained that the owners presented a total of 22 appeals for reconsideration, which were rejected, “because they mostly contained the same reasoning, which did not provide any added value to the criteria used for the property to be declared in imminent ruin,” points out the Porto government group.
This is the reason why the Department of Sustainable City, Urban Agenda and Citizen Participation has begun to prepare the corresponding procedures to undertake the orderly subsidiary execution of the measures previously decreed.
The second deputy mayor defended that “proceeding to forced execution through subsidiary execution of the actions is the obligatory step that we must take as municipal officials to solve this problem that we have been burdened with for so many years.” David Hernández recalled that “during the previous mandate, great progress was made to solve the situation in which the Iders building found itself, leaving in the hands of the owners a series of measures that they had to make effective and that have not been completed.”
Among the measures decreed in 2022 by the Puerto de la Cruz City Council were the “elimination of protective meshes and shoring elements without conserving or maintaining, due to the risk of imminent fall from the overhangs of the property; cleaning and deratization actions, the drafting of the technical demolition project and, lastly, proceeding with the exceptional measure of demolition of the building,” said the mayor.
After the deadlines established for the execution of such measures, the owners have not materialized them, so the Puerto de la Cruz City Council has to “take sides and take charge of the different phases of the process.” The consequence of all this is that this new decree will give rise to the Consistory, of Porto, via judicial authorization, to begin to execute the actions and the subsequent drafting of the demolition project.
The decline of the Iders building began in 1991, when the Department of Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Puerto de la Cruz City Council ordered the eviction of the homes and commercial premises of the property due to aluminosis and risk of collapse.
