SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, December 15. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Territorial Policy of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Miranda, stated this Friday that the land law, approved in 2017, is “good” because it allowed many regulations to be “clarified”, but he understands that it is necessary to “give it a spin” to improve in effectiveness, efficiency and proportionality.
In response to a question from the Socialist Group in the parliamentary committee, he has denied that this review process is “a brown bag” or a “censorship” of the previous Government of Fernando Clavijo and has indicated that a “listening process” has been opened with professional associations. , social agents and public institutions to try to improve the text.
He has indicated that the land law introduced “benefits” because it “decentralized” the form of planning that existed until now and that was guided by the Ministry, giving power to councils and town councils, with the problem being that it was decentralized “in complex sites ” and small town councils that “do not have the capacity” to develop planning.
He has also said that “there are issues to clarify” because there are articles that “are interpreted differently by island, there are redundancies, difficulties with rural land, instruments designed for one issue and that are used for another or clarifying projects of island interest.” “.
“It is not a bad thing that we give it a look,” he explained, focusing especially on ending the “inability” that many municipalities have to develop their general plans despite the subsidies from the Ministry and the technical support from Gesplan and Gestur.
Jorge González (PSOE) has snapped at the councilor that he has a “brown” because “he is censoring” a law approved by his own party, something that the College of Architects and the Advisory Council had already warned about during the processing of the law.
He has asked him to “be cautious with his partners” of the PP because “they push him” to design a law similar to those of Madrid or Andalusia and he has asked “what they did wrong” so that they now decide to undertake a review of the law.
“I ask you to listen to everyone and take it into account and not listen too much to the PP, we know what they want and how they want it,” he indicated, which is why he offered the “outstretched hand” of his group to face a process that “is difficult” because the interests of eight islands and 88 municipalities must be harmonized.
“Count on us but take into account the control of the territory,” he stressed.
