The Minister of Ecological Transition, José Antonio Valbuena, qualified some of his previous statements yesterday in which he had stated that “the Adeje City Council would be the one who would have to compensate the company that promotes Cuna del Alma for the stoppage of the project.” Valbuena specified that “it is a hypothetical situation that is far from raised in the procedure that is open.”
However, from the Adejero Town Hall yesterday the “discomfort” and “indignation” with the aforementioned statement was transferred, calling out the attitude of the counselor of “institutional disloyalty with the politicians of his same party in Adeje and, above all, with the officials and municipal technicians”, when referring that Cuna del Alma has a “clean” file and that, according to those same municipal sources, “it has all the favorable reports from the Department of Ecological Transition and the Cabildo”, therefore “in the City Council We are very calm, it is only possible that Justice makes it clear, ”they say.
They regret the statements of counselor Valbuena and demand that he meet with the municipal representatives. In turn, they point out: “Does anyone wonder how it is possible that the largest tourism investment currently planned in the Canary Islands can be done without an environmental impact report? In Adeje we have the same interest as the Ministry in preserving and protecting the natural environment, but also the economy”, they indicate.
They remember from Adeje that the area where it is planned to build the Cuna del Alma tourist complex and a luxury hotel is subject to the Subsidiary Regulations that date from 1982 and, three years later, to a Partial Plan that was approved, with various corrections by the Cotmac in subsequent years, until it achieved its final approval in 1998. In 2014, the Adeje City Council approved the urban development of the El Puertito de Adeje enclave, reducing the building area by 20%, so that the Cuna del Alma complex It went from 4,400 beds to 3,600 in 2021, while the hotel projected by the CIO group (Bahía del Duque) went from 300 rooms to 90. “With these figures, on a floor of 450,000 square meters, one cannot speak of a macro-project” , they say from the Consistory.
They also report that Cuna del Alma has passed all the environmental filters and it was at the beginning of the year when the license was granted to start urbanizing (roads and streets), with the global environmental report approved by the Ministry and by the Cabildo, “after corrections about flora that was not there, heritage and other technical matters”.
