Last Friday, the Yaiza City Council resolved, in a Governing Board, to grant a license for the construction of 33 protected private promotion homes on a plot of the Montaña Roja Partial Plan, located behind the El Pueblito de Playa Blanca residential area.
The project, according to the City Council, "has the favorable report of the Canarian Housing Institute that certifies, as is required in the case of VPO, that the initiative meets the habitability conditions established by current regulations."
The City Council explains that, "consistent with the pressing demand for housing in Playa Blanca", it urged Club Lanzarote, through the Yaiza Supplementary General Planning Plan tool, to reserve a plot for the construction of buildings under a private promotion protected housing regime in Montaña Roja, "in such a way that the execution of the first 33 homes is the result of that decision."
The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, positively values "the willingness of the company Club Lanzarote to invest in a project of these characteristics that entails the realization of the first phase of this initiative, which contemplates a total of 256 homes of about 80 square meters." Likewise, Noda appreciates "the diligence of the Government of the Canary Islands, which in a short period of time studied and reported on the project."
Possibility that the Canarian Housing Institute will buy them for social rent
The Yaiza representative also confirms that "the possibility has been explored that the Canarian Housing Institute will buy the homes to be used for social rent and that this will serve to promote the execution of successive phases." In this sense, it is pointed out that, within its mission, "this body of the Government of the Canary Islands has the competence to promote and encourage the construction and acquisition of homes subject to public protection"
Yaiza, in any case, states that it is studying "the adoption of new measures to alleviate the lack of long-term housing, taking into account the demand caused in the municipality by its wide range of employment."