The Nationalist Group (CC-PNC) in the Cabildo of Lanzarote requested on June 25 the holding of an Extraordinary Plenary Session, to be held on Tuesday, July 13, to address the situation of island planning, which it states is "in total paralysis, and especially the Island Plan for Territorial Planning (PIOL), since the president of the Cabildo, María Dolores Corujo Berriel, announced in the ordinary plenary session held on June 21 that said plan has to be practically discarded."
The nationalists claim that Corujo's government "has not taken a single step with any instrument, except for the Plan for the Management of Natural Resources (PORN) of the Chinijo Archipelago, which was already drafted and sent to the Government of the Canary Islands for its approval."
"We are aware of the contractual difficulties presented by the planning and its complexity, but the truth is that the island has an island plan that is more than 30 years old, and does not have a Special Plan for the Protected Landscape of La Geria in force, nor a Governing Plan for Use and Management of the Chinijo Archipelago," says Pedro San Ginés, who presided over the Cabildo for 10 years and is currently deputy spokesperson for CC-PNC.
"These are three instruments of strategic importance for the economic, social and environmental protection development of the island. "We tried for ten years during which, on the one hand, the court overturned the Special Plan of La Geria, for procedural issues, and the PRUG of the Chinijo Archipelago, for not having approved its PORN in the year following the declaration of the natural space, as happened in the Canary Islands in so many other cases," says San Ginés.
On the other hand, he adds that "it was also not possible to complete the Island Plan for Territorial Planning, contracted in 2007 by the then president Manuela de Armas, and initially approved in 2010, which had the direct participation of the PSOE in the Government on two more occasions and, especially, in the first part of the past term, when under the political direction of Marcos Bergaz at the head of Territorial Policy, the document was completed with a very high degree of consensus and that beyond the adaptation of the document to the supervening territorial planning should serve as the basis for a great political agreement."
"I ask the current Government Group to take advantage of the outstretched hand of a responsible opposition; the one I did not have for ten years," said San Ginés, who affirms that "it is important that we can have, at least, these three planning instruments as soon as possible, and for this it is necessary to know the situation of each of them and what is the planning and schedule for their approval, proposed by this Government Group."
