Valle Gran Rey activates control over all vacation rentals

The Valle Gran Rey City Council (La Gomera) has approved the Plan for the verification and control of all holiday homes existing in its municipal district, the instrument required by the second additional provision of Law 6/2025, of 10 December, on the Sustainable Regulation of the Tourist Use of Homes. The decision was adopted by decree of the Mayor’s Office-Presidency dated 10 August 2026 and is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife No. 97, of 14 August 2026, page 23207 (notice 3500, registration 1704625, file 1527/2026).

The plan fulfils the mandate that the second additional provision of Law 6/2025 addresses to the Canary Island city councils: to approve and begin to apply, within a maximum of eight months from the entry into force of the regulation, which took place on 13 December 2025, a plan for the verification and control of all holiday homes in matters of classified activities, with a validity of no more than four years. The starting point is the detailed list of homes registered before the entry into force that the department responsible for tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands has sent to each municipality. The decree, signed by the mayor-president Borja Barroso Jiménez and the acting secretary-comptroller María Isabel Pérez Gutiérrez, is also based on Law 7/2011, of 5 April, on classified activities and public shows, and on its implementing regulations, Decrees 52/2012 and 86/2013.

Municipal register and detection of illegalities

The plan, which covers the entire municipal district, is defined as an internal planning instrument of an operational nature in matters of verification, control and inspection, with a dual purpose: to verify compliance with the formal and technical requirements of each activity and to serve as a diagnosis for future urban planning instruments. Its first phase provides for the creation of the Register of operating holiday homes in the municipality, which will include:

• Homes included in the list sent by the Government of the Canary Islands.
• Those communicated to the City Council even if they do not appear in the regional register.

In parallel, it will be checked which homes are still in operation through physical inspection and notices to holders and owners. Those that have ceased the activity will be excluded from the register, after a resolution and hearing of the holder, and those that are registered, operating and have not submitted the required prior communication will be in an illegal situation, with the information being transferred to the Cabildo Insular de La Gomera. The plan sets a six-month period to clean up the register and leave only the homes in a situation of formal legality.

Review of communications and on-site checks

The second phase examines the prior communications submitted, verifying urban planning compatibility and the technical requirements of Law 6/2025. Inaccurate, false or omitted data of an essential nature may lead to the impossibility of continuing the activity and the prohibition of initiating a new procedure with the same purpose for three months; non-essential defects may be corrected within a period of ten days. The third phase adds initial on-site checks, in which the holder must prove, among others, the civil liability insurance and the complaint forms, and will conclude with a favorable or unfavorable report, due to correctable or serious defects.

Selective inspection and final report

The plan reserves the fourth year of validity for inspecting homes with signs of risk or irregularity, detected by municipal services, reported by law enforcement officers or arising from complaints, especially those that have received unfavorable reports. At the end of the four years, and within the following two months, a Results Report will be prepared with a statistical summary of the homes analyzed and their final legal status, which will be sent to the Island Council of La Gomera and to the Regional Ministry responsible for Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands, to which a copy of the approved plan will also be sent.

The measure fully affects vacation rental owners in La Gomera, who must have their prior communication in order, comply with technical requirements and submit to verification and inspection visits; irregularities may lead to the cessation of the activity and the intervention of the Island Council. Against the decree, which ends the administrative route, an appeal for reconsideration may be filed within one month or an administrative litigation appeal within two months.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, No. 97, Friday, August 14, 2026, announcement by the City Council of Valle Gran Rey, p. 23207 (announcement 3500, registration 1704625, file 1527/2026).