Yaiza again asks the Cabildo for a meeting on the Playa Blanca tourism plan

The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, sent a letter on Tuesday to the Cabildo de Lanzarote's councillor for Land Use, Territorial Policy and Tourism Planning, Jesús Machín Tavío, requesting a working meeting on the status and progress of the Playa Blanca Tourism Modernisation Plan.

It isn't the first time. The same request had already gone out on 2 July.

The mayor's point is about method more than substance: «the information we have is passed to us by the Canary Islands Government», he says, «and we consider maximum coordination between all the administrations involved to be appropriate». Noda also asks for fluid communication on the exchange of information between island and municipal planning.

What's at stake

A tourism modernisation plan is the instrument for upgrading an already-built tourist area: it decides what can be renovated, what expanded, what has to go. For Playa Blanca — which grew fast and largely over the last thirty years — it means setting down in writing what the town will be over the next thirty.

That the council should have to learn from the regional government where a plan affecting its own territory stands is, in itself, the story.