The mayor of Tías, José Juan Cruz Saavedra, spoke this week on Radio Lanzarote-Onda Cero to announce the modifications that are being made to the municipality's Planning Plan to adapt it to the Canary Islands Land Law of 2017.
Among the measures to highlight, the council has announced the declassification of 1.3 million square meters of land in the tourist area of Puerto del Carmen, one of the most important on the island along with Playa Blanca. This means that the land will become non-developable.
The document to adapt the municipality's planning plan is already in the council and "the technicians are already issuing reports," he announced during his speech.
In the adaptation to the regional law, Tías opted to reconvert the space, located south of the ring road, at the entrance to Matagorda and past Rancho Texas, into rustic land to avoid its tourist or residential development and has reported that it has done so "at zero cost."
"I believe it is the first municipality in the Canary Islands to declassify land," Cruz Saavedra said in the morning show Buenos días, Lanzarote.
The housing problem
In another vein, José Juan Cruz stressed that "the problem for housing is not in the General Plan, which has been approved since 2005. The Land Law does not allow municipalities to reclassify whatever we want."
Thus, he indicated that "the only thing that allows us" said plan "is to order and control the land." In addition, he revealed that "there are many partial plans and action units to be developed."
In this sense, he assured that "30% of the land in the action units and partial plans must be dedicated to promotion, public or private housing." Regarding these actions, he pointed out that "to date, only one adaptation unit for a single user has been developed in the town of Tías and 57 homes will soon be started on consolidated urban land" in the streets Orquídea and Tajinaste, next to the nursing home and in the institute.
The Tías City Council has indicated that "it is not going to reclassify more land than it already has, because there is no reason to. If we are saying that we are saturated and growing at a rate that we cannot, we are not putting even one more meter of land."
These changes in the General Plan will also involve the "correction of ground alignments, facing the plot." In addition, in the rustic areas within a radius of 200 meters all the houses that are built are consolidated, "only the houses, but nothing can be done on the available land in that radius of 200 meters," he concluded.
