The General Director of Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, Sulbey González, has listened to the suggestions of the municipal officials of Tías and Tinajo, in separate meetings, to be taken into account for the final drafting of the Special Plan for the Protected Landscape of La Geria, which will be on public display until the end of next January.
Both the mayor and the Councilor for Urban Planning of Tías, José Juan Cruz and José Antonio Gutiérrez, as well as the mayor of Tinajo, Jesús Machín, and technicians from his Consistory, conveyed to González a set of proposals that they consider relevant for the final document.
A Plan based on consensus
The General Director of Territorial Planning has attended to the demands of these two municipalities to achieve a final text "based on a consensus that governs the planning and conservation of this Natural Park", although its final approval will have some adjustments "in light of the new possibilities provided by the Law of Urgent Measures regarding Territorial Planning for Sectoral Dynamization and Tourism Planning".
Sulbey González also highlighted "the importance of citizen participation in the planning of this protected area of Lanzarote", and reported that the residents of the affected municipalities (Tinajo, Yaiza, Tías, San Bartolomé and Teguise) have an explanatory guide available at the Cabildo of Lanzarote and in the town halls, "with the necessary keys to intervene in the planning process of the Protected Landscape of La Geria".
"Areas that deserve special protection"
The Protected Landscape of La Geria or Natural Park of La Geria, covers 5,255.4 hectares and borders to the west with the Natural Park of Los Volcanes, which in turn surrounds the Natural Park of Timanfaya. Within this natural space is delimited the Natural Monument of the Cave of the Naturalists, a representative structure of the island's geology of great aesthetic value and well preserved, which comprises 1,600 meters of underground galleries and 2.1 hectares of surface area.
The declaration as a Protected Landscape aims to protect the traditional agricultural landscape, "since it is a space that has areas of the territory that deserve special protection for their aesthetic and cultural values," says González.
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