The Arrecife City Council has addressed the Cabildo de Lanzarote for the third time to authorize the felling of a tree in the Ramírez Cerdá park, in front of the old Post Office headquarters, since it affirms that its "poor condition and instability represent a danger" to pedestrians.
"The lack of response from the first Island Corporation is an irresponsibility due to the serious consequences that the fall of the same could have", questioned the Councilor for Parks and Gardens, David Toledo.
From the Consistory they point out that they sent the last letter last Friday, July 15, although they had previously sent two others. "Given that to date no response has been received from the Island Heritage Service, we have urgently requested the necessary permission for the removal of the ficus australis specimen affected by the risk of collapse and serious damage to property and people in the public sphere,” Toledo insists.
As they explain, the first request was transferred a month earlier, on June 15, attaching a technical report from the company Prezero España, S.A., which is the concessionaire of the urban tree maintenance service, in which it was warned “of the risk situation of collapse and fall of this specimen located in the José Ramírez Cerdá Park, on Avenida La Marina in Arrecife.”
The report highlighted that “the protection situation of this park makes the usual maintenance tasks more complicated” and that “there are irrigation problems in the park due to the strangulation of part of the network (derived from a civil work on the adjacent avenue) and the irregularity of supply to the irrigation network”, and as a consequence of this, “in recent months there have been some episodes of falling branches in this and other trees in the park”.
