The Cabildo of Lanzarote has unanimously approved in the ordinary Plenary session held this Monday, October 24, to archive the revision of the Insular Plan of Ordination of Lanzarote (PIOL) of 2007, to initiate a new procedure of substantial modification of the PIOL together with the processing of its environmental document, and to conserve all those documents that were elaborated for the revision of the PIOL of 2007 that are "useful and necessary for the processing of the new procedure", they explain from the Cabildo.
The president of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, María Dolores Corujo, has explained that she has agreed to "initiate the procedures so that the Island has a Plan adapted to the current reality and legality, since the previous one does not adjust from several points of view to the present time".
“The draft of the old PIOL was stillborn, since, when it was delivered, a Land Law that annulled all the provisions of urban content contained in it had already entered into force. The very objectives of the Plan have become outdated after 15 years of processing, becoming obsolete and far from the reality of Lanzarote”, Corujo stated.
For her part, the councilor of Heritage, Ariagona González, has detailed the "importance of approving this proposal, insofar as, from 2013, when the advance of writing of the PIOL of 2007 was stopped, in January 2017 it was necessary to sign an extension with the editor, because the document was not ready for its initial approval".
“The existence of substantial modification means that a new strategic environmental assessment procedure must be initiated. That strategic environmental study should have been prepared before December 11, 2021. In addition to this, the Plan continued to encounter several inconveniences, to which we must add that the document presented by the drafting team at the time was based on an analysis of the island from 2008. As of 2022, this analysis is obsolete and far from the current reality of Lanzarote”, González pointed out.
“The climate emergency in which we find ourselves, and the more necessary than ever sustainability, make us need an instrument according to the new times, and that marks us the lines to follow in the future”, concluded the councilor.
