The TSJC requests the file for the San Bartolomé urban plan

The High Court of Justice of the Canary Islands has requested the administrative file of the Supplementary General Planning Plan of San Bartolomé, in Lanzarote, after five private individuals challenged its final approval. The Directorate General for Territorial Planning and Territorial Cohesion has resolved to send the full copy of file 2013/2385 to the Contentious-Administrative Chamber, Second Section, Las Palmas headquarters. The decision is made public through the Resolution of October 26, 2026, which appears in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) no. 224, of November 10, 2026, in section V of Announcements.

The origin of the litigation

The contentious-administrative appeal, processed as ordinary procedure no. 00000104/2026, is directed against the Agreement of the Autonomous Single Report Commission of December 30, 2025, which definitively approved the general planning of the municipality. That agreement was published in BOC no. 10, of January 16, 2026, in BOP no. 30, of March 11, 2026 (announcement 839), and in BOC no. 52, of March 17, 2026, in accordance with the Resolution of the Directorate General for Territorial Planning and Territorial Cohesion of December 30, 2025.

The procedure complies with article 48.1 of Law 29/1998, of July 13, regulating the Contentious-Administrative Jurisdiction, which requires the jurisdictional body to request the file and the Administration to carry out the summonses of article 49. The competence of the Directorate General to send files and carry out summonses derives from article 26.10 of the Organic Regulation of the Ministry of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, approved by Decree 28/2025, of April 7.

Who is challenging the plan

The appellants are five owners or holders of interests in the municipality:

Mr. Gareth Hull
Ms. Caroll Hull
Mr. Dante Mario Mancini
Mr. José Antonio Ojeda González
Ms. Kathryn Louise Mawer

Deadlines and recipients of the summons

The resolution orders the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands and the summoning of anyone who may appear as an interested party. Specific mention is made of the City Council of San Bartolomé (Lanzarote), represented by its Mayor, who has nine days to appear before the Second Section of the Contentious-Administrative Chamber, based in Las Palmas, if it is in their legal interest to do so.

The document also designates the General Directorate of Land Management and Territorial Cohesion as the body responsible for complying with the judicial resolution, pursuant to Article 48.4 of Law 29/1998, and requires that copies of the notifications and the publication of the announcement be sent to the court. The resolution was signed in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria by the Director General of Land Management and Territorial Cohesion, Onán Cruz Díaz.

A second appeal regarding the same planning

The same supplementary plan is subject to another challenge before the same chamber. The BOC no. 219, dated November 3, 2026, published the Resolution of October 20, 2026, which forwarded the case file in ordinary procedure no. 00000107/2026, filed by Ms. Julita Calero Bermúdez against the same Agreement of the Autonomous Commission for a Single Report, with an identical nine-day summons period.

The coincidence of both procedures regarding a land management instrument of indefinite validity anticipates a scenario of legal uncertainty for the municipality: two active appeals against the same approval agreement and a case file that has already left the Department for the court. For owners, developers, and license holders in San Bartolomé, the publication opens a limited window to appear and defend their interests in a litigation that could condition the application of the current planning on the island of Lanzarote.

Source: Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, no. 224, of November 10, 2026, section V. Announcements, pp. 40684-40685 (official reference: 3883).