The PSOE of Arrecife states that "Coalición Canaria is preparing, through the new General Plan of Arrecife, one of the biggest urban planning blunders remembered in Lanzarote, to raze with concrete and asphalt the beach that lies between Playa Honda and the El Cable urbanization."
The proposal contemplates 521 homes which, according to Cristina Duque's complaint, "threaten to radically deform the environment and compromise the natural heritage of the capital." "We are facing a massive land grab that could bury the El Cable beach under concrete and cement."
"And it is that Maciot Cabrera picks up, in the Urban Planning department, the baton of the worst of cement speculation," states Duque. The operation would allow the incorporation of a total of 521 homes in an environment whose market price exceeds at least 3,500 euros per square meter. "For whom is Arrecife being planned? For the families of Lanzarote who cannot access housing or to promote new constructions at prohibitive prices?" questions the socialist councilwoman Cristina Duque
Duque also warns that the arrival of more than 1,500 residents would mean enormous pressure on existing infrastructure, from sewage and roads to water and electricity supply networks.
"We cannot replace our natural heritage with an extension of housing and apartment developments. We are talking about a development of wild dimensions. They want to lay 210,000 square meters of concrete, blocks, cement, and asphalt on top of the beach sand that will compromise the environment and aggravate the service problems that the area already suffers from," points out the socialist councilwoman.
"Lanzarote needs to control its growth, protect its territory, and facilitate access to housing. What it does not need is to continue filling land with constructions that most residents cannot afford and that later force our infrastructure to bear ever-increasing pressure, not to repeat the mistakes of the past that the usual suspects like so much," concludes Duque.
Finally, Duque states that "it seems that any natural landscape on our island bothers them. Seeing a beach with sand is as if it were an insult to Lanzarote's speculation policy."
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