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Urgent call to suspend demolitions
The Canary Islands Platform for Those Affected by the Coastal Law has called for the urgent suspension of demolition orders across the archipelago until the reform of the legislation is approved. The reform has already passed through the Senate and is now awaiting consideration in the Congress of Deputies.
José Luis Langa González, president of the platform and a lawyer, has warned that enforcing court rulings while the reform remains pending could have severe consequences for inhabited areas and sites of heritage value throughout the islands.
Cave dwelling under threat in Fuerteventura
As an example, he highlighted the case of the Cueva de la Negra in Pájara, Fuerteventura, whose demolition was temporarily halted last August. The property, a dwelling built more than 150 years ago, sits within an area of significant heritage value.
Langa has announced that he will request an urgent meeting with the President of the Canary Islands Government, Fernando Clavijo, as well as with the directors general of Heritage and Procurement, Juan Cabrera Delgado, and of Coasts and Maritime Space Management, Antonio Acosta Felipe. The aim is to review ongoing demolitions and attempt to prevent further destruction.
Call for joint commission meeting
The platform is also demanding the urgent convening of the Joint Commission for Those Affected by the Coastal Law in the Canary Islands, a body in which the regional government, island councils, town halls and the organisation itself are all represented.
“We are at a critical moment to save from demolition many spaces that form part of our Canarian history,” said Langa, who believes that waiting for the reform to be approved could prove too late for some communities and heritage sites.
Langa also criticised the actions of the State Coastal Authority, which he accuses of continuing to enforce demolition orders “indiscriminately” and of failing to take into account the situation of certain established urban areas and heritage sites.
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