Neighbors who reside in the 162 apartments of the Eureka community of owners warn of the serious risk of being left without electricity again as of tomorrow. Have a hard time have the 4,000 euros that they must pay each week (16,000 euros per month) for rent and diesel for the generator sets to work of those that obtain the light from one o’clock in the morning of last December 30.
Ten hours before, more than 1,500 families (more than 4,000 people) were without electricity in the six communities that make up Ten-Bel: Primavera, Bellavista, Drago, Carabela and Palia don Pedro, as well as the Alborada aparthotel. The service cut was made by the Endesa company due to the debt of almost one and a half million euros that the company that manages this privately owned complex maintains with the electricity company. Debt and supply cut “that he did not communicate to the communities.”
With the mediation and management of the Arona City Council, incompetent in this area as it is an urbanization not yet received by the municipal Administration, the emergency and provisional measure applied was the installation of generators. “A very expensive solution that the communities must pay for. Not counting the environmental damage that this means. Communities that always paid the consumption to Ten-Bel, holder of the supply contract to all the urbanizations ”, recalls Luca Mastrantonio, president of one of the housing blocks.
“All communities want to pay their bills” for electricity consumption “and strongly demand that the supply be restored,” explains who also understands that in the current situation “thousands of owners are in a condition of deterioration of personal dignity and of his only property in which to live.
Fees and taxes, plus water
Mastrantonio explains that almost all the owners of the apartment communities “have paid the electricity bills” to the Ten-Bel manager, so they are still waiting for explanations about the destination of the amounts paid so far. Likewise, the residents of this urbanization of Costa del Silencio “pay municipal taxes and fees to the Arona City Council and water to the Canaragua company,” which was awarded the supply service. Aspect that leads those affected to seek the involvement of the municipal administration in the final resolution of this problem.
Along these lines, residents also value taking the actions they deem appropriate against the City Council “as jointly responsible for this unacceptable situation” that occurs “in the heart of the oldest tourist area of Arona.”
It so happens that the Arona City Council intervened, despite not having powers to act in a completely private urbanization, on December 29 (date of the power supply cut) to guarantee security in Ten-Bel, regulate traffic and collaborate in the search for an urgent solution. The mayor of Aronero, José Julián Mena, and some of his councilors collaborated with those affected. Even the municipal social services offered help for the cases of vulnerable people that comply with the conditions of the action protocols.
The penultimate attempt
In mid-2018, and after multiple meetings and negotiations held between the property owners of the urbanization and those responsible for the Urban Planning area, the municipal government announced that “both parties” established the “roadmap” to be followed during the following months “to fully regenerate this area and that it can be received by the Arona City Council ».
The keys to this were the development of a topographic map of Ten-Bel by the property. A necessary document because the construction did not conform to what was projected in the decade of the sixties of the twentieth century. The property of the urbanization chose to carry out a substantial modification of the project. But what seemed like a solution at the time, has not materialized until now and the municipal government has repeatedly explained that they are waiting for the property to “do what it has to do” to make the reception of Ten-Bel possible. .
The company that manages the place, Ten Bel Turismo SL, entered bankruptcy on February 23, 2014 until April 21, 2020, the date on which the bankruptcy administrator was dismissed. During this period, several companies operated the complex.
