In the heart of Playa Blanca, the Hotel Son Bou It looks like a tourist complex. Rental cars pile up at the doors and a handful of tourists sunbathes in colored sun loungers. The same picture is repeated in the surrounding buildings, all of them dedicated to tourism. However, something is different in the son Bou. On your facade there is no sign that allows you to identify it. Nor does it have reception. To access there are only two options. The first, enter through a ramp that gives to a common area. The second, to cross an underground passage that connects it with the Great Luxury Hotel Princess Yaiza. The establishments have two elements in common: its owner is the well -known businessman Juan Francisco Rosa and None have stopped working despite being illegal.
The license to lift this 3 -star hotel in the old plot ‘and’ ‘of the Partial Plan Papagayo, in the municipality of Yaiza, was granted in 1998 by former mayor Juan Francisco Reyes, now in prison for corruption. That year, the politician hit more than 1,500 tourist places as part of a plan to enrich himself during the exercise of his position, making his position at the head of the City Council “a way of doing business.” This follows from the judgment of the Yate case, which annulled multiple licenses granted to the promoters irregularly. Among them, the son Bou.
Reyes took advantage that he ruled the urban jewel of Lanzarote to patent “ promoter urbanism. ” The mayor asked the businessmen who had urban interests in Yaiza with the excuse of “expediting the procedures to grant licenses.” However, he omitted key requirements such as tourist authorization or legal reports. Many of the tourist complexes that work in the municipality are currently the result of that dark stage of the City Council. This is the case of the Papagayo Arena.
In recent years, the owner of Son Bou, Juan Francisco Rosa, has tried to legalize it. The last strategy was to ask for an extension of the Princess Yaiza hotel to be able to include the Apartment Complex in it, but the proposal did not go ahead. In 2024, the City of Yaiza commissioned a complex technical report that establishes how the demolition of the son Bou would be so that the building can adjust to the urban law of the municipality.
Twice allowed places
This technical report, signed by the architect Maximilian . The building, allocated to hotel use, has three plants of height on ground and two under flush with respect to public roads. Built in the form of “L”, it has 55 rooms of 85 square meters, pool, solarium, gym, changing rooms, several common areas and private areas for employees.
According to the document, to which this newspaper has had access, the Lanzarote council has discharged the initial activity license of AptaHotel. The construction, as stated in the report to which this newspaper has had access, does not conform to what is allowed by the General Planning Plan of Yaiza. The Son Bou doubles the allowed capacity, with 220 places compared to the 111 established in the regulations.
The built surface also exceeds in more than 6,000 square meters the collection in the municipal standard. While the buildable surface is 3,333 square meters, the current state of occupied soil amounts to 9,427.26 square meters.
Demolition proposal
At the request of the City of Yaiza, the technical report raises how the partial demolition of the hotel Son Bou would have to be executed to adjust to the legality. It also includes a series of conditioning works of the already built part that would remain standing. According to a letter submitted to the courts for the defense of the Municipal Corporation, it is the property of the hotel responsible for preparing the partial demolition project in accordance with the content of the technical report commissioned by the municipality.
It is also the company that must materially execute the collapse “without further delay” hiring a company that has “sufficient human and material media” to carry it out. The brief was presented on November 18, 2024 to the Contentious-Administrative Chamber of the Superior Court of Justice of the Canary Islands (TSJC) and establishes a period of 30 business days so that the hotel decides whether or not to accept the proposed demolition and Six months to present the partial collapse project.
Once the demolition license is obtained, the property will have 18 months for material execution. If these terms are not fulfilled, the City Council of Yaiza will intervene immediately and will be responsible for executing it “ without prejudice to the impact to the property of the hotel of assumed costs. ”
The proposal does not raise any modification in the -2 plant, but in the others. On the floor -1 indicates that the computable surface intended for common client areas to a room of 83 square meters must be reduced. In order for the basement plant to be considered as such and not as a ground floor, its facade must be partially buried so that the roof is less than 0.70 meters above the level of the soil or ground level, reducing the surface destined for solarium around the pool.
Along these lines, the rooms destined for gym and changing rooms must become internal service rooms. On the other hand, the tunnel that connects the Son Bou with the Princess Yaiza hotel is also maintained.
The demolitions begin on floor 0. The report proposes to demolish all vertical facade enclosure in 76% of its perimeter and create an open diaphanous plant, knocking down all the interior divisions and the entire carpentry of enclosure. The plan also converts into common areas for customers the office of the ground floor and a services room and indicates the demolition and withdrawal of the access pergola to the building.
On floor 1, the vertical facade enclosure of its entire perimeter must be demolished partially, in order to comply with the municipal ordinance. It must become a diaphanous plant and thus demolish all existing internal and toilet divisions. In the halls you have to completely eliminate the roof slab and remove all the carpentry.
In plant two, the existing cover of the building must be completely demolished. The report includes the elimination of the roof and floor slab forged, which composes the roof of plant 1 as indicated in the plans. “Vertical enclosure, carpentry, interior divisions, bathrooms, toilets, gardeners …” should be eliminated. The final result must be a passable cover where the existing photovoltaic installation will be placed. Finally, “the distribution of the rooms must be reconfigured to guarantee the 111 seats enabled for this plot.”
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