The Canarian Parliament hosted this Thursday the parliamentary commission of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, where the deputy of the socialist group Marcos Bergaz has asked the area's counselor, Manuel Miranda (CC), from Majorca, for his assessment, the consequences of the recent definitive annulment by the Justice of the General Supplementary Plan of Yaiza and the measures to prevent similar episodes from occurring in the future.
It should be remembered that the aforementioned Plan, approved by the Canarian Government in 2014, in times of the nationalist Domingo Berriel as counselor of Territorial Policy and in application of the third transitional provision of the Law of Guidelines, has been revoked by virtue of a judgment of the Supreme Court, administrative litigation chamber, dated June 2, 2025 “for failing to comply with binding road reports.”
A judicial pronouncement that confirms a previous judgment of the Canary Islands Court of Justice, of the same jurisdictional order, of September 22, 2022, so that “its provisions are expelled from the legal system and the planning regulations of the municipality of Yaiza of 1973 are revived”, said Marcos Bergaz.
“It is not the first time that something similar has happened when talking about planning in Lanzarote, counselor. If in 2020 it was the annulment of the Special Plan of La Geria; and in 2016, the PRUG of the Chinijo Archipelago, now this is added, with the legal uncertainty that it originates”, Bergaz recalled.
“Of course it is an important issue, Bergaz continued, which requires not only an assessment by the Administration that processed and approved it, the Canarian Government, but also to take good note not to repeat errors in the new supplementary general plans that your Government is processing, seven throughout the Canary Islands, and among them, those of Arrecife and San Bartolomé.”
“Therefore, it is time to take extreme precautions so that the definitive approval of these important urban regulations, which take up so many years and resources, do not suffer the same fate. Hence, I ask you about your assessment of this annulment; about the additional measures so that history does not repeat itself; and for the support that the Canarian Government is going to give to the southern City Council of Yaiza to approve its new General Plan, but also in the processing of the present and future pending files that affect the residents, neighbors and the business community”, Bergaz indicated.
For his part, the counselor Manuel Miranda conveyed as an initial assessment the bad news that this annulment implies “we cannot have worse luck, that a General Plan that comes to fill the urban deficiencies of a municipality as important as Yaiza is annulled”. He also announced that the Government is already in coordination with the City Council to analyze the situation of the most complex urban planning files and the impact of this annulment that revives the urban regulations of 1973”.
Finally, Deputy Marcos Bergaz urged the counselor to “support the Municipality of Yaiza in this situation and to take maximum precautions so that history does not repeat itself in the future, whether when talking about supplementary general plans, ordinary plans or any other Canarian urban regulations.”
