SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The mayors of the fourteen municipalities of La Palma have demanded a special housing plan for those affected by the Cumbre Vieja volcano and that the use of the territory be made possible to develop, with viability and sustainability, the tourism sector.
This has been stated by Vicente Rodríguez, mayor of Puntagorda, who has appeared in the study commission on the effects of the volcanological crisis and reconstruction of La Palma, on behalf of the mayors of the Island.
Vicente Rodríguez stressed that La Palma has been going through, even before the eruption of the volcano, a situation that requires a strategic plan to mitigate the serious situation that the Island is experiencing.
For this reason, the fourteen city councils have requested, as a priority, a special housing plan for those affected by the volcano, an infrastructure plan that makes it possible to cover basic needs and recovery and generation measures to meet the needs of the Island as a result of the volcano.
Likewise, without giving up the primary sector and adapting it to the new times, the mayors advocate defining the uses of the territory in order to promote tourism development, the main source of growth in other islands, which have managed to grow in socioeconomic parameters and in population, he pointed out. Rodriguez.
In this sense, they request the approval of a rule by the Parliament of the Canary Islands to enable the use of the territory to develop the tourism sector on the island of La Palma, always betting on clean energy, sustainability and territorial balance.
According to Vicente Rodríguez, the uses of the territory have to be defined with a strategic and calculated plan to facilitate investments and get off the ground. Otherwise, he warned that the island will continue to lose population and age, not allowing students to return to the island to start their professional career.
