Nueva Canarias warns about the imminent demolition of a century-old house in Mácher and questions heritage protection in Tías.
The party believes that the disappearance of this house would represent a loss for the traditional heritage of the municipality, not only due to its age and architectural characteristics, but also because of the history held within its walls.
According to the book "Reseñas sobre educación del municipio de Tías" (Reviews on education in the municipality of Tías), this dwelling served as a public school and teacher's house until 1953, when the new educational center was built next to the road. Jesús Feliciano Corchero Martín, who was the mayor of Tías between 1938 and 1948, taught there.
This connection makes the dwelling a space of special relevance for the educational and institutional memory of the municipality. We are therefore not dealing with just any old building, but with a property directly linked to the history of several generations of residents of Mácher and Tías.
The property also preserves two old cisterns, representative elements of Lanzarote's rural architecture and water culture, which is so important in the history of our island.
Nueva Canarias believes that both the dwelling and these elements deserve a rigorous heritage assessment before authorizing an irreversible action. The fact that the cisterns are not included in the municipal catalog should not prevent their age, characteristics, and the protection they might deserve from being studied.
The reasonable and prudent course of action would have been for the Tías City Council to have previously requested reports and a technical assessment from the Historical Heritage department of the Cabildo de Lanzarote, before allowing a situation to arise where the loss of these elements is irreversible.
A problem that stems from the General Plan itself
This situation once again brings to the table the model of management and protection of heritage that has been developed in the municipality. The General Plan delimited an urban area in El Volcán, in Mácher, next to Volcán Tres street, in an environment traditionally characterized by scattered houses and plots of between 1,000 and 2,000 square meters.
Nueva Canarias questions that, in a complex with traditional buildings over a hundred years old, only three properties have protection, while other constructions with evident historical and architectural interest are exposed to their disappearance.
The party insists that it is not against building houses or the development of the municipality. What it questions is a model that allows urban growth to occur at the expense of losing elements that are part of the identity and memory of our towns.
Nueva Canarias demands explanations from the City Council about the actions taken, an urgent heritage assessment, and that all possible measures be studied to prevent the disappearance of this house before its demolition is carried out.
"Heritage is not protected when it has already disappeared. It is protected by anticipating its loss," they state from the party.
Finally, they explain that "the heritage of our towns is not an obstacle to development. It is an inheritance that we have an obligation to preserve for future generations."
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