Noda asks to unblock the expansion of the health center after the PORN is approved

Following the approval this Thursday in the Plenary Session of the Cabildo of the draft Natural Resources Management Plan (PORN) for the Los Volcanes Natural Park, the mayor of Yaiza and opposition councilor of the Cabildo, Óscar Noda, has demanded that the Presidency of the island Corporation give free rein to two actions considered priorities for the municipality: the expansion of the Yaiza health center and the installation of the municipal soccer field's visor.

Noda maintains that, once the document has been approved, there are no longer obstacles to moving forward with the expansion of the outpatient clinic through the transfer of land by the City Council to the Government of the Canary Islands. Likewise, he reminds that the City Council is in a position to undertake the execution of the soccer field's roof.

The mayor recalls that during the public information period of the PORN, in October 2024, the City Council presented allegations to exclude several public facilities and residential areas of the Yaiza nucleus from the scope of protection, including the health center, the municipal field, and homes in the town.

In these allegations, the City Council requested the redefinition of the southern limit of the protected area up to the LZ-2 road, arguing that the document did not recognize the consolidated uses or the existing infrastructures and equipment in the area. Furthermore, it argued that these lands do not meet the conditions to maintain the planned level of protection due to the impact generated by the road itself since its construction.

Taking advantage of the approval of the PORN, Óscar Noda also urges the Cabildo and the Government of the Canary Islands to address, together with the City Council, the demarcation of El Golfo, a historical demand of the municipality for this enclave to be recognized as a consolidated population center. The mayor believes that this request gains even more strength with the execution of the sanitation project in the town.

Noda insists that "any action must be perfectly informed and coordinated among all administrations." In this regard, he referred to the recent intervention on the access stairs to El Golfo beach, an action that, he denounces, was carried out without sufficiently informing the City Council or the residents.

Precisely this week, the mayor held a meeting at City Hall with the head of the Demarcation of Coasts of the Canary Islands, Alberto Martín Coronel, dependent on the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, to convey the municipal unease over the lack of prior information about the works carried out on the coast.