The apartment owners of Las Palmas and foreigners with the right to vote with interests in the south of Gran Canaria placed their trust in the Canary Coalition in 2023 and that is what, in accordance with what emerges from the new Canary Islands Holiday Housing Law, It seems that he is on that path of defending his investments. Whatever they want in Las Palmas, the south of Gran Canaria will establish its legal system on its own. For political purposes, the melon is opened to strain and all this happens through Alejandro Marichal, deputy mayor and Councilor for Urban Planning, who has always defended the idea of making spaces compatible.
In coherence, Marichal obtains the legal approval to comply with his agreements with the AV-PP and the hotel employers will have to strive for coherence because in Las Palmas he has a discourse with holiday homes in residential areas and in the south of Gran Canaria he defends quite the opposite. It should be noted that FEHT of Las Palmas is in the hands of José María Mañaricua (Gloria Palace, which has a good part of its business in the Canary Islands domestic market) and the vice presidency has been controlled since December 2023 by Águeda Borges, external advisor of RIU Hotels in the Canary Islands. AV-PP, in the logic of cascading decisions, is not going to be getting into trouble either since it is the result of a rule derived from the agreements in Tenerife between CC and PP.
And the FETH apartment unit will have a problem because it has not known how to use its influence given that its business is the hotel business and the apartment business would not have known how to mobilize support. Everyone seems to win. To all this, be careful: the Government of the Canary Islands ditches the holiday homes in buildings dedicated to tourist establishments, that is, apartment blocks. The properties are considered "accommodation units" and not homes.
The Government of the Canary Islands outlines a standard for heights. Tourist exploitation may not be authorized in homes subject to horizontal property when its constitutive title or the statutes of the community of owners prohibit it. If the statutes do not say anything to the contrary, an agreement from the owners' meeting will be necessary where the possibility of exploiting the homes for tourism is "expressly" accepted. But there are nuances: this agreement will not have to be carried out if the statutes already allow tourist accommodation.
Therefore, tourist accommodation will be allowed on the ground floors in the plans where they can be used as homes. On the first upper floor, the urban use of tourist housing with common access to other residential homes will be permitted when the useful surface area, added to the rest of the non-residential uses of the building, is equal to or less than 250 useful square meters. On the upper floors, located above the previous ones, "a tourist home" will be allowed with common access to the rest of the homes, provided that none of those located below are intended or planned for residential use, always their surface must be equal to or less than 250 meters. On upper floors, when they have independent access and whenever they are below those intended for residential use, the surface must be less than 250 meters. One tourist home will be allowed for every ten regulars with the limit of its useful surface added to the rest of the uses, which must be equal to or less than 500 meters.
