The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, offered a press conference this Tuesday morning after learning of the decision of the Supreme Court, which confirmed the total nullity of the General Subsidiary Planning Plan of the municipality.
In a press release after his public intervention, Noda pointed out that housing is "the greatest concern of the population of Yaiza and all of Spain." In this way, he has assured that the license granted for the Government of the Canary Islands to build 136 homes in Playa Blanca for social rental on land ceded by the City Council in Montaña Roja "remains valid."
Noda pointed out that "we only hope that the Community tenders the works, as the construction license for 76 protected homes of private promotion, the third phase of the Los Ajaches residential area, which has a favorable report from the Canarian Housing Institute, is also still in force.”
The mayor has also stressed that “the Institution respects the licenses already granted to individuals, will study the licenses that are being processed on a case-by-case basis.”
Meanwhile, he has reported that he will focus "his efforts on giving continuity and speed to the drafting and processing of the new General Plan, which has a contracted drafting team, a team that is working on the first step: the document phase for public consultation and preliminary studies document. We hope that in six months we can have the draft of the new Plan.”
"The partial plans maintain the obligation to execute the urbanization works, as is the case of Montaña Roja," says Noda
For the mayor. “The annulment of the Plan approved by the Canary Islands Territory and Environment Planning Commission in 2014, of course, is not the desirable scenario for anyone, because it leaves us in the planning of 1973, but we have the solution tool in the drafting of a new Plan and that is why we have commissioned it.”
Óscar Noda recalled that “at the media level there was always more talk of the regularization of hotels, but the 2014 Plan allowed the construction of homes in the towns and facilities for public use that are decisive in the development of the municipality. We will not stop the plan for public infrastructures that includes the Family Respite Center, the Playa Blanca Library and the project to expand the health center that the Government of the Canary Islands must undertake. The partial plans maintain the obligation to execute the urbanization works, as is the case of Montaña Roja.”
Regarding the guidelines of the new Plan, the mayor has maintained that “one of the objectives is to tackle the existing imbalance between public services and infrastructures and tourism growth.” Óscar Noda has been optimistic about the work that lies ahead: “The drafting team of the new Plan has work advanced by the work done by the municipal technical office and all the documentation of the 2014 Plan, which represents a great advance.”
The municipal government will hold a new meeting this week with the awarded company, Ingeniería, Estudios y Proyectos Europeos S.L, with whom the City Council signed the contract for drafting the Plan on March 18. With representatives of this firm, there was a first meeting in April in Yaiza, in addition to the constant exchange of documentation.
Finally, Óscar Noda thanked two of the four political groups in the opposition, CC and PP, “who answered the call I made to all political groups to explain to them before the press conference the conclusions of the municipal legal services, and I also appreciate their company in the appearance.”