The New Canaries councilors in the Cabildo of Lanzarote, Oscar Noda and Daisy Villalba, have submitted the information request protected by the provisions of article 17.1 and 17.2, as well as article 18.6 of the Organic Regulations of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, relating to “access to information by the Island Councilors and their ways of regulating it, its requirements and ways of accessing the documentation".
For the Canarian councilors, "beyond the sterile debates" in which Lanzarote's planning has been involved in recent decades, it is necessary to "urgently address the approval of these documents as a matter of responsibility with future generations and with the island itself", which deserves that we "order it and preserve it."
Noda and Villalba want to know firsthand the real status of the drafting of the 'Special Plan of La Geria' and the 'Island Plan of Territorial Planning', in order to "study and analyze" the following steps to follow in their opposition work, contributing to "provide support and/or present suggestions" from a perspective based on "knowledge" and with a "constructive character", with the common objective that these plans, and supporting "the commitment" of the current president, "go ahead" during this mandate.
“We have come to add, but we want to know the real status of the planning tools", therefore, let no one understand these requests as an "attack or a preventive audit" to a government that is still new. "It is time to collaborate and even lend our help if they deem it necessary," argue the councilors of Nueva Canarias in the Cabildo of Lanzarote.
“We want to study the documents in depth, know their real status, see the guidelines set and, above all, be able to participate in plans that, yes or yes, have to go ahead in this mandate." "We are committed to the island, and the government of Cabildo de Lanzarote can rest assured," they add.
"We are looking for solutions, we do not intend confrontations, we are aware of what the citizens, the business community and the island itself demand, and that moves us away from accusations, unfounded suspicions and brings us closer to betting on dialogue, diligence in management, open debate and rigor so that these documents see the light," says Noda.
With everything, for the party's councilors, the "planning and organization of the territory must be faced urgently given the challenges that both Lanzarote and La Graciosa maintain." Challenges, they understand, “such as demographic growth, energy transition and adaptation to climate change, the water crisis, sustainable mobility or housing”, they conclude.