The Director of Coasts of the Canarian Government, Antonio Acosta, believes that the island coastal areas that have grown "knowing that they are in the public maritime-terrestrial domain" must be "demolished" and that have not legalized this situation or have tried to, but have continued building.
Before meeting with the 14 coastal municipalities of Gran Canaria to analyze the situation of each one in terms of coastal management, a meeting in which the island councilor for Territorial Policy and Landscape, Inés Miranda, also participated, and which will be repeated shortly in Tenerife and El Hierro, Acosta alluded to ongoing disputes over boundaries that he considers do not comply with the law, among which he cited one in Salinetas and another in Yaiza (Lanzarote).
The position of the regional Executive in these disputes "is the same one we defend in the Oliva Beach. In these two boundaries, we understand that a part is an aggression against the powers of the Canarian Government itself, which, in addition, goes against the interests of different people," he said.
"In the end, they are residents of a municipality who are in certain conditions and who, suddenly, by drawing a line, you place them in a very complicated legal position to be able to develop their usual life," Acosta stressed, who has reported that the Canarian Government has commissioned a legal report from the University of La Laguna on the situation of the coastal areas that proposes that the first thing to do is a census of them, house by house.
This census requires prior planning work and a significant investment, but the regional Government is considering carrying it out to find out how the Coasts Law affects each of the properties and to what extent.
"There are people who have not complied and have continued building despite knowing that they were in the domain and, logically, there are conditions within those same areas that will have to be eliminated because they have not complied with the law, but from there to certain situations of coastal areas that have a history, a heritage and that are part of the life of the Canary Islands, we understand that they must be looked at with affection," he said.
Acosta has assured that the Canarian community is not proposing "a breach of the Coasts Law, but that this law be interpreted in a different way."
