Unusual: he walled up the sidewalk and made an illegal patio at the door of the house | the Chronicle

For most of 2020, when you couldn’t go out into public places to sprawl out, large balconies, decks, patios, and residential parks were seen as extremely valuable assets. Although the restrictions imposed by the Covid They are more and more flexible and allow to share outdoor spaces while preserving distances, these roofless plots are still a desire, that everyone would like to have on their property.

In this sense, in the town of Ojos de Garza, on the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, a family decided to wall up a piece of sidewalk (or sidewalk, as they say in this country) to obtain, at all costs, a small place in the open air, according to the portal The newspaper.

While it is clear that the decision he made is illegal, the owner decided to use a small concrete wall that had been in place for 15 years to build himself an entire front yard. “It already existed before, but it was not as advanced as it is today”neighbors complained.

When the inhabitants noticed that this construction prevented the passage of other pedestrians, they decided to file a complaint with the town hall, arguing that it is “suffocating” create a courtyard that encroaches on the public domain. Similarly, the authorities explained to the media Teldeactualidad: “Neither disabled people nor pedestrians deserve to walk on the road”.

From the pictures, we can see that the front yard is about 80 centimeters wide and just over five meters long. The path being narrow, the difficulty of movement is even greater. Also, you can see how the owner placed an aluminum door in front of her and covered the wall with gray ceramic tiles. As if that were not enough, we observe that he decided to put a gas or electricity niche right in the wall before the illegal construction.

For his part, the Town Council’s Urban Planning Advisor, Hector Suárez, assured that the work does not have a license and authorization to invade public space. The Urban Discipline sector has already opened a file to the owner to encourage him to remove this construction from the sidewalk.

In this sense, the local police raised in March a record of non-compliance with urban regulations and the town planning department of the town hall of Telde began to process the report. However, the owner changed domicile, so it took several months to get to know the file.