The Teguise City Council will file a contentious-administrative appeal against the Coastal demarcation of the section between "Los Dises and Caleta de La Villa". Likewise, the City Council has encouraged the approximately 200 affected residents to file a motion for reconsideration and will work to ensure that this action is supported by the Cabildo of Lanzarote and the Government of the Canary Islands.
The mayor of Teguise, Juan Pedro Hernández, and the councilors Domingo Cejas and Oswaldo Betancort, as well as the legal staff and the Technical Office of the City Council, met this Tuesday at the Soo Socio-Cultural Center to explain to the residents affected by this demarcation the actions they can take, given the loss of ownership of their lands.
The General Directorate of Coasts of the Ministry of the Environment has approved the demarcation of the public maritime-terrestrial domain of the coastal section between "Los Dises and Caleta de La Villa", a strip that covers 16,000 meters from Caleta de Famara to past the town of Soo.
This demarcation goes into the Island in many parts more than 2.5 kilometers when, according to reports from the Consistory, "the general rule is a hundred meters from the sea". "Coasts makes this vast expansion for other reasons because it determines that the jable is of marine origin and very important for the island ecosystem".
"Outrageous"
The City Council considers "this strip outrageous" and therefore is going to file a contentious-administrative appeal since, according to them, "there is no other demarcation like this in all of Spain". "If we apply the same requirements, we arrive at Playa Honda, since everything is the same marine jable", says Domingo Cejas.
The residents who have their lands within the public domain strip directly lose ownership of them, a loss that will prevent them from cultivating them, unless they request an administrative concession. The owners, once they receive the notification from Coasts, have one month to file a motion for reconsideration. The legal services of the City Council will provide all residents with this resource and recommends that they present it separately, one by one, "to increase the pressure"
The mayor of the municipality, Juan Pedro Hernández, thus informed of all the procedures that the City Council has carried out and those that it will carry out from now on "to avoid this outrage and try to safeguard the rights of the residents". They also informed the residents about who to contact in the City Council to help them specifically with the lawsuit.