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Lesson for Loro Parque: in Maspalomas there are no free businesses

Lesson for Loro Parque: in Maspalomas there are no free businesses

Dácil Santana Thursday, June 23, 2022

Have half-free land, do the work with money from the Corporation Tax (RIC), hire staff with training courses, put a hotel on the half-free land with regional incentives and allocate part of the profits to a foundation with environmental or scientific varnish to stop criticism from environmentalists. The recipe for having free business even on road signs can be done in Tenerife; but not in Maspalomas. Already in Las Palmas they did a free issue on public land of the Port Authority of Las Palmas called Poema del Mar and which has received rejection from the citizens of Gran Canaria for being handled from the land where ATI was born.

The zero-risk businesses that the Tenerife company wanted to develop in Maspalomas have been rejected by the Supreme Court and represent a lifeline for Aspro Parks, that is, Palmitos Park and Aqualand Maspalomas. In 2019, the current Podemos deputy for Tenerife made it clear: "it is not about all businessmen, but about the minority, who are the most powerful and are around subsidies, so the policies of the Canary Islands have defined them." the aid that comes from the European Union (EU) and the State".

The ruling of the Supreme Court that condemns the public operations to locate the Tenerife company in the south of Gran Canaria is categorical when it points out that the declaration of general interest of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria has been weak because when the PP declares the tourist interest of the investments in the car water park, only reference is made to the fact that it is viable "from the legal, economic and financial point of view", which did not exclude the urban planning point of view, which required the approval of the corresponding PMMIC, nor in said processing , of the existence of water resources that, apparently, should have been considered as subsequent procedures, as the Plan certainly was. 

If Loro Parque wants to develop a Siam Park in the south of Gran Canaria, it will have to spend its money and get in line to obtain a planning license. This 2022, the mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana said that Siam Park would be "a driving force for Maspalomas." Following the news from Maspalomas24H that the theme park would have a hotel, the tourism sector caught fire because that establishment would be on public land and that aspect had not been discussed previously. If the Tenerife company wants to operate, it can already be talking to the family of Conde la Vega Grande to see if it has land for sale. It is, for now, the only option.

 

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