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Angeles Micol points out "the attack that urbanizations involve in the setting of the sanctuary" and recalls that Now Murcia managed to stop three months ago Plan Fuensanta

NOW MURCIA denounces the appearance of cut palms and a rip-off, on the grounds of a housing development under construction at the foot of the sanctuary of La Fuensanta in Santo Ángel.

The mayor Angeles Micol specifies that it is the Special Plan Pu-SA1 and the urbanization Residencial Salzillo.

"There are numerous regulations that establish the obligation to protect the date palm, hence we have written in writing to the Councilor for Urbanism, Environment and Huerta to learn what happened and if appropriate, take appropriate measures," says .

The Councilor specifies that this legislation against which it could be attacked is "the General Plan of Urban Planning-PGOU (articles 9.3.2., 9.3.4 and 9.3.5, relating to the protection of the date palm); Annex II of Decree No. 50/2003 of 30 May establishing the Regional Catalog of Protected Wild Flora of the Region of Murcia and the Municipal Ordinance of Green Areas and Road Map of the Municipality of Murcia.

Micol emphasizes that, in addition, the urban plan itself of the planning area of ​​the urbanization fixes among its criteria "to protect its woodland", something that "it is possible that it is not being fulfilled".

"These developments in the vicinity of the sanctuary of La Fuensanta are already an attack against this landscape and natural environment so that they may also be in breach of regulations on the protection of trees," said the mayor, who remembers that three months ago The Plenum approved, through a motion of Now Murcia, that the City Council review ex officio the Partial Plan ZB-AZ1.2, known as Plan Fuensanta, which provided for the construction in the area of ​​the sanctuary of almost 1,500 homes and which had Two negative reports from the Autonomous Community for containing numerous irregularities, "despite which the PP municipal government kept the plan alive."

Micol considers fundamental the protection of the palm tree in the municipality, "since it is a fundamental element of the landscape of Murcia and its Huerta".

The Councilor affirms that this species could be a serious danger in the municipality "because of the continuous pests of weevil and the abandonment of the local Government in the fight against it. And if this were not enough, we still have today the existence of urbanism that Is often very disrespectful to its natural environment, something that administrations can not afford. "

Source: Ahora Murcia