The Governing Board of Yaiza has approved this week the granting of the urban planning license for the Interpretation and Visitors Center project Casa de la Sal de Salinas Janubio, an investment that is now conditioned to the presentation of the execution project by the promoter, Carlos Padrón. For the mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, "the project enhances one of the great landscape emblems of our municipality, reinforces its tourist attraction, generates economy and creates employment."
Óscar Noda held a meeting this Thursday with representatives of the property in the company of the councilors of Tourism and Urbanism of Yaiza, Ángel Domínguez and Jonatan Lemes, respectively. "This is a project that Carlos Padrón has been working on for years, which he has had to modify taking into account the technical considerations of the institutions and that he will finally be able to execute, presumably after the summer," he said. For his part, the promoter notes that "Salinas de Janubio is one of the oldest companies in Lanzarote and the Canary Islands, dedicated to obtaining sea salt through traditional methods."
La Casa de la Sal proposes the construction of three articulated and buried modules almost in their entirety, in the plain above Las Salinas that is close to the road that connects the town of La Hoya and Janubio beach. One of the modules will be the exhibition area, the interpretation center itself; another will be the visitor reception area and store, and a third module will be used for restaurant services. The same buildings will include other facilities such as offices and storage area, as well as parking.
The Yaiza City Council defends that the Salinas de Janubio Site of Scientific Interest "meets sufficient cultural, social and ethnographic values for an interpretation center and its annex facilities to be a dynamizing activity that serves for the maintenance, conservation and recovery of the Salinas and that the effort of the owners in their conservation is recognized."
"Las Salinas is part of the Yaiza brand, and while it is true that this project was being processed long before the pandemic, now we understand that its execution represents a significant boost for the local and island economy, apart, of course, from the landscape and historical connotations of Janubio," adds Óscar Noda. In any case, he stresses that "any intervention must be respectful of the environment, making only the necessary modifications to the territory to accommodate the uses established in the project."
