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Property owners rally against tourist law
Affected by the new Tourist Law, residents flocked to the Land Registry in San Bartolomé de Tirajana this Wednesday in a bid to defend the residential use of their apartments. The move comes as part of an ongoing dispute over the controversial legislation that property owners say threatens their right to live in their own homes.
‘Inaudito’ says PALT spokesperson
Maribe Doreste, spokesperson for the PALT group, said that those registered as residents in San Bartolomé de Tirajana are not violating the right to housing, and that it is “outrageous” that a law should tell them they must leave their homes. “What kind of legal certainty does a land registry give me when I have been registering my property there for 30 years with no tourist use attached, and now the registrar himself tells me I have to carry out a series of procedures and obtain documents from the Department of Tourism for my residential use to be respected?” she asked.
“I already have residential use – it is in my title deed. So do not tell me I now have to resort to other tricks as if we were all tourist accommodation, as if everything were an establishment and as if we were all accommodation units, because we are not,” insisted the PALT president this Wednesday.
Mixed housing types in southern Gran Canaria
She stressed that in the south of Gran Canaria there are homes of different types and complexes where tourist activity could be developed if the owner accepted it. She lamented the “tricks” that have been deployed and insisted that the use of her home cannot be classed as tourist because it is not. “It is not tourist use because of the legal publicity I have had for 40 years and what my title deed says, and because of the way they are now trying to trap us with this decree and the other one.”
Doreste argued that the right to property and the Constitution must be respected, as well as the non-retroactivity of the law and the status quo that owners have always held. “PALT does not accept that the concept of an accommodation unit can be used to alter the title deed, the legal nature of our properties or the powers corresponding to their legitimate owners,” the group insists in a statement.
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