Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (EFE).- The Civil Guard has opened proceedings against 58 people in the municipality of Telde (Gran Canaria) in the last two years for crimes against land use planning and the environment, two of which have been arrested, in an operation against the proliferation of constructions on protected rural land.
As reported this Tuesday by the Las Palmas Command, the Nature Protection Service (Seprona) activated this operation, called “Domos”, at the beginning of 2021 when it detected that urbanizations, buildings were being built in the Llanos area of Madrid for residential use and constructions on land classified as rustic land with economic protection and with the subcategory of rustic land with special agrarian protection.
The agents discovered that in all cases “an attempt is made to mask some urbanization actions of the plots with sales by portions of land”, so that “within these urbanizations divisions were carried out, resulting in subplots where the physical division and different actions such as buildings for residential use and constructions”.
Seprona requested a report on the compatibility of the works observed from the urban discipline service of the Telde City Council, which ruled that they are “illegal and unlawful.”
The agents also proceeded to file 15 complaints against Law 4/2017 on the Land of Protected Natural Areas of the Canary Islands.
The proceedings initiated are being forwarded to the Duty Court of the town of Telde and to the Provincial Prosecutor for the Environment, since the operation is still open, without ruling out including more investigated. EFE