Oliva Beach Hotel

[PHo]

It is being reported in the papers that the Oliva Beach Hotel, which was threatened with demolition in 2017,  is safe for 75 more years under the new Costas law.  It also means that the villagers in Los Molinos, Pozo Negro and other coastal villages are out of danger too.

Common sense prevails - all too uncommon in Spain.

[Voldermort]

Until next year, when someone will change the law yet again and probably bring in the bulldozers.....anything could happen out there 

[beachlife]

Good news. I assume that the same rule allows Tres Islas to be saved from demolition.

[PHo]

Yes, but Tres Islas already had a 30 year extension

[fifi]

My guess is the Ley de Costas was ammended because of pressure from the Hotels. I know that all of the illegal hotels in Lanzarote were having to pay €200,000 per annum to stay open. Many were also partly financed by grants  amounting to millions of euros  by the EU , even though they were built on land which was not legal according to what I read. I doubt that they were worried about the "little people" in the  coastal villages at all when they made the changes.

[cockney]

Both of the hotels were built years before the Costa law was passed. My property was built on the beach in 1985 and when I sold it recently I had to get a certificate from Las Palmas showing that it complied, which it did due to it's age.

[pamthomas]

Does this mean the costal road from Parque Holandes to Corralejo will be kept open?

[PHo]

The road is due to be closed only after the new road is complete. Given the state of Canary Island finances this could be years away.  Nothing to do with the Oliva Beach issue though