SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, January 25. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Minister of Ecological Transition and Energy of the Government of the Canary Islands, Maria Hernández Zapata, has expressed her doubts this Thursday with the effectiveness of the urban reconstruction decree of La Palma prepared by its Executive and recently validated by Parliament.
“I am really not happy with the decrees, because I consider that more solutions still need to be given, because there are neighbors who do not have solutions,” he said in an interview given to ‘Radio Club Tenerife’ and collected by Europa Press.
For this reason, he hopes “in the melon that opens” with the possible law that emanates from the decree, it can be “improved and advanced” so that the neighbors who had their properties near the coladas, such as those in El Paraíso, “who could not even even take anything out of their homes”, have a solution.
The counselor has commented that these neighbors “right now do not have any solution, but to resort to the rustic decree” –building on rustic land–, something that was already approved previously, which is why he demands a “superior effort” to find alternative solutions. .
He has assumed that the island’s recovery process after the volcanic eruption in Cumbre Vieja “will not be easy at all”, giving as an example that the emission of gases continues to be “very complicated” despite the fact that the gradual opening of areas in Puertos Naos and La Bombilla, on the coast of Los Llanos de Aridane.
Questioned about the possibility of being able to build on rural land throughout the Canary Islands to facilitate access to housing, he has limited that possibility only to La Palma and in an “exceptional” way.
“I believe that this cannot be done in the entire Canary Islands, far from it,” he pointed out, underlining that the autonomous community already has a land law that allows for some “exceptional solutions” and therefore claims to adhere to those “rules.” .
On the other hand, La Palma believes it does need to expand the supply of land since almost 1,000 homes were lost during the eruption and now it is necessary to occupy rural land to recover the properties. “All the Canaries understand that,” he explained.
