Costas maintains the demarcation of the north of Lanzarote with a width of one hundred meters

The National Court has rejected an appeal filed by the City Council of Haría against the maritime-coastal demarcation that sets a width of 100 meters, instead of the 20 defended by the local corporation, for the towns of Arrieta, Órzola and Punta Mujeres, north of Lanzarote.

The objective of the appeal was for the Justice to recognize that this environment had the condition of urban land when the Coasts Law came into force, so the new demarcation implies "a violation of the right to property and the omission of the established procedure".

The Ministry of Ecological Transition responds that in 2013 it requested certain documentation that was not submitted within the established period and, when it was finally done, after its assessment, the State understood that the conditions to consider these enclaves as urban were not met.

The Court rules that the legally established requirements to proceed with the ex officio review of this demarcation are not met and, therefore, dismisses the request of the City Council of Haría, which can still appeal to the Supreme Court (TS) to defend its point of view.

The local corporation filed the appeal in 2021 considering that the demarcation "blocks the progress of the coastal towns of the municipality, harms the development of the nuclei and threatens their progress".

All this given that any project that wants to be done less than 100 meters requires new permits from Costas, which implies an impediment for the municipality "and a significant setback in the progress of the coastal towns".

The Platform of the Municipality of Haría (PMH) presented in 2019 a motion requesting "a new maritime-terrestrial demarcation in accordance with the new reality and establishing a symbiosis between the marine environment and the urban consolidation of the municipality".

The political formation proposed to the plenary session to address the Ministry of Ecological Transition to set a new demarcation of the aforementioned coastal nuclei of the northern municipality "in the same terms as has been established in Arrecife with the area of the Islote del Francés".