The Haría Town Hall has approved in its last plenary session, held on June 5, not to adhere to the Canary Islands decree-law of April 21 that allows streamlining urban planning licenses through technical reports issued by entities other than the technical offices of the consistories.
"It has been done to have a bit of containment," said the mayor of Haría, Alfredo Villalba, during his intervention in the morning show Buenos días, Lanzarote of Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero.
"It is the first municipality on the island to adopt that possibility that this law gives," Villalba continued. In this sense, he indicated that this decree-law allows the City Councils not to adhere and "maintain control of their technical offices." Thus, he has defended that they have preferred to take this decision because its approval "generates enough doubts" and they prefer to opt for prevention.
"We want to continue maintaining the idiosyncrasy of our towns, each and every one of them that continue to maintain that charm and we are seeing how little by little in the Canary Islands and in Lanzarote itself is being lost," the mayor stressed.
"We are quite proud that our municipality is and continues to be the only municipality that does not have any significant accommodation plant," he said during his radio intervention.
Thus, he continued adding that they are "proud" of this measure "although some may call it too conservative." Regarding this decree, he indicated that "we have seen the possibility that the wolf arrives, in speculative terms and that we want to completely remove it from the planning of our territory in the municipality." Meanwhile, he pointed out that in the municipality there are already "specific cases, near Tabayesco, that nobody in the municipality of Haría feels proud of and we try to avoid precisely the devouring of our territory."
Finally, he indicated that he is aware that the Technical Office of the municipality should be "much more agile." In this way, he seeks to provide it "with more resources" to speed up these files. "We have preferred to reinforce the Technical Office, compared to that possibility that licenses could be granted simply with a project that is presented endorsed by any college."