Officials from various departments of the Canary Islands Administrations have expressed this February 2025 their astonishment at the silence of political leaders, businessmen and unions regarding the alleged risks that would be involved in the creation of a recreational activity in the south of Gran Canaria at the height of El Veril, in Playa del Inglés, and which is promoted from Tenerife by the company Loro Parque. The Siam Park project has been delayed by the appeals of environmental groups but in the shadows, after the DANA of Valencia, no official wants to sign any text on the Siam Park of El Veril in case a disaster occurs in the future and that ravine generates a downpour.
The plan being drawn up would include the construction of recreational activities next to a 70-metre-high tower, a hotel, a restaurant and cafes. There is opposition from officials and environmental groups such as El Turcón and the Ben Magec regional federation, who believe that a ravine is being occupied and its physical reality, flora, relief and fauna are being altered.
In 2019, Chamber III of the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal filed by the Gran Canaria Island Water Council, the Island Council and the Government of the Canary Islands, against the ruling of the High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands that declared null and void decree 373/15 of the regional Ministry of Territorial Policy, Sustainability and Security by which the Plan for Modernization, Improvement and Increase of Competitiveness in El Veril, San Bartolomé de Tirajana was approved, the purpose of which was to promote and facilitate the installation of a large water park (Siam Park), promoted by Loro Parque, SA
The Supreme Court concluded that the procedure for granting the concession of public domain land for a water park, which was the object of the plan, did not record the existence of water resources. That was in 2019 and now in 2025 the document will be adapted to make it viable; but something unforeseen has happened: a DANA in Valencia and the technicians do not want to know anything about the channeling of the Barranco de El Veril collected in a document, Hydrological Plan of Gran Canaria, as requested by the high court since it was not recorded that in the procedure to grant the concession a report had been issued guaranteeing the existence and availability of sufficient water, which forces the dismissal of the appeal.
In the confirmed ruling, the Canarian TSJC declared the plan null and void, arguing that it lacked the mandatory report from the Island Water Council on the existence of the necessary water resources, since the one included in the proceedings did not meet the minimum substantive requirements in relation to the existence and current sufficiency of water to meet the new demands derived from the Modernization Plan (which entailed the construction of a water park, a hotel, restaurants and cafes).
