The construction works of the Soo corrals have already begun. This has been confirmed on Radio Lanzarote by the councilor of the Teguise City Council, Oswaldo Betancort. "It's a reality. The residents of Soo can now stop dreaming."
This provides a solution to a problem that the residents of Soo have been suffering from for decades. The town's farmers had been waiting for years for their corrals to be moved out of the town's urban area, but the territorial classification of the land prevented it.
Finally, the City Council managed to put out to tender the construction of the new corrals, whose works were awarded and, according to Oswaldo Betancort, have already begun. "The sign was placed yesterday and the earthworks have already begun today," the councilor explained.
"We took over the City Council 18 months ago. There was previous work, which was very arduous in terms of land classification, but we understood that the City Council could not spend 1.2 million euros to build infrastructure for the benefit of the private sector. Therefore, what the City Council did was to adapt this project, which has finally been left at 420,000 euros.
The new facilities will be located on a 14,000 square meter plot in Montaña Mosta and the works, which are financed by the Cabildo de Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands, have an execution period of seven and a half months, as explained by the mayor of Teguise, Juan Pedro Hernández, at the time of their award.
The farmers, as Oswaldo Betancort explained, will be in charge of managing the new corrals and will have to pay a fee to the City Council. No resident should believe that the City Council is going to create an infrastructure for the residents, but rather it is an administrative concession, so that the residents who own that livestock have to pay a fee for its use," he concluded.