The general director of the Cadastre of the Ministry of Finance, Jesús Miranda Hita, inaugurated this Thursday in Lanzarote up to four Cadastral Information Points that will be launched within the first half of next December, "once we have finished the selection process of personnel of the General Office, which we are about to finish".
Arrecife, Tías, Teguise and the headquarters of the Island Council of Lanzarote will serve as complementary points to the General Cadastre Office of the Island, which will open its doors in the building located at number 16 of the Vía Medular, which the First Island Corporation has ceded to the Ministry.
Staff selection
"We already have the head of the Office appointed, Fernando Miranda, this month we will select a couple of people to dedicate themselves to customer service and in November we will send a draftsman", said the general director.
For its part, the cadastral information points will complement this main Office, [the third in all of the Canary Islands->http://www.lavozdelanzarote.com/article.php3?id_article=1864&var_recherche=Fernando+Miranda]. While in the latter the cadastre data will be updated and the properties will be registered, in the information points the cadastral certificates will be obtained.
"We have the expectation that these cadastral information points will be generalized to all the municipalities of the Island in a very short time, and also to the Island Council itself in the coming weeks", explained Miranda Hita at the end of the protocol meeting, in which he was accompanied by the island director, Marcial Martín, and which he held in the Presidency Area of the island institution together with Inés Rojas.
Access information immediately
From these points, citizens will be able to access information on more than one and a half million properties in the Canary Islands, as well as those belonging to all of Spain except the Basque Country and Navarra, without the need for cumbersome bureaucratic procedures or unnecessary waiting.
The Ministry thus tries to eliminate the barriers to access to cadastral information. "It is about bringing cadastral information to all citizens in a definitive, radical and unrestricted way. From now on, legally valid cadastral certificates can be obtained, obtained directly through the Internet, and in a totally free and immediate way", said the general director of the Cadastre.
Saving of procedures
In addition to the advantage of saving procedures when requesting information with access through the network, the main advantage for the citizens of Lanzarote will be that, once the Cadastre Office is opened on the Island, which until now depended on the central offices in Gran Canaria to process cadastral information, certificates can also be issued instantly and with legal validity for official requests.
"With the Cadastral Information Point, those documents will be obtained in 20 seconds. There will be no type of procedure or management, and citizens will not have to travel to the capital of the province or to any other island, and it will not be necessary to have Internet access", he added.
Without Internet
The Cadastral Information Point is a service provided by the General Directorate of Cadastre through the Internet. However, and given that a high percentage of the population still lacks access to the network of networks, this same public service can be provided from the local entities themselves, taking advantage of those citizens who do not currently have this technology.
In this way, as soon as the Cadastral information points come into operation, all those people who do not have Internet access "will only have to go to their town hall to obtain the cadastral certificate there immediately, with updated cadastral information, up to date, and of properties throughout Spain, not only on the Island". Thus, if someone owns a home on the Island and, at the same time, another in another national point, they can request information from both addresses from here.
Normally, in practice, cadastral certificates are requested especially to sell or buy a property, apply for a study grant or any type of aid such as access to social housing. With these changes, a lot of time is saved for those users who previously had to wait for, for example, changes of ownership to appear.
Office and information points
At the General Cadastre Office, located in Arrecife, the public will be attended to in person. Anyone who needs to file a claim, an appeal or any cadastral procedure can do so at the aforementioned headquarters of the Vía Medular.
In addition to this face-to-face attention, the Cadastral Information Points will complement this General Office, and local corporations will be able to deliver cadastral certificates directly to users, with which "they will not even have to go to the capital, but from their own town hall they will be able to obtain the information".
