The mayor of Llanes, Enrique Riestra, intended that the agreement to veto the granting of new licenses for tourist homes for one year be approved unanimously this Wednesday in the extraordinary plenary session, but it has been impossible to reach a consensus due to the opposition shown. by the Municipal Socialist Group.
However, the moratorium proposal has also gone ahead thanks to the eight votes of the councilors of the bipartite government of Vecinos por Llanes and PP. The six socialist councilors present in the plenary session have voted against.
The proposal had been debated last Friday, the 11th, in the municipal Territorial Planning and Housing Commission. In that meeting, the PSOE abstained.
Avoid speculation
The socialist councilors presented an amendment aimed at promoting new public rental housing that was rejected. In his opinion, the moratorium now approved violates the current provisional urban planning regulations.
The mayor does not think the same. He believes that in Llanes a solution had to be found so that the residents of the municipality could access residential housing in the face of the current “speculation” with tourist apartments.
“In the plenary session I questioned so that this one-year moratorium, which was the time recommended by the University Foundation reports, had majority support, but finally the PSOE voted against,” he lamented.
The moratorium will affect the seven municipalities that are urban: Llanes, Poo, Barru, Posada, Nueva, Celoriu and San Roque.
Inconsistency in name
Riestra has assured elDiario.es Asturias that the one-year moratorium will facilitate this access to residential housing. He trusts that at this time legislators will be able to legislate taking into account the reality of the housing situation in these areas of this Asturian coastal council.
“With this moratorium we will give oxygen to many young people from Llanos who will be able to access residential homes that were initially going to be used for tourism, because we calculate that their owners will continue making them profitable,” he explains.
Riestra sees even the name of the vacation homes as “incongruent”: “Even the name is incoherent because the home is for living,” he specifies.
Riestra: “It requires brave legislators”
This moratorium will give “a break” to many young people and many families in the council who will be able to access housing and, in his opinion, it can be an example to follow in other Asturian councils.
“This is a patch because local administrations can patch global problems, but these must be legislated by the autonomy and government of the nation. It is a problem that requires courageous legislators. Let’s see how the moratorium develops,” he concludes.
Source: www.eldiario.es
