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The councilor of this formation, Gloria Martín, recalled that it is Non-Urbanizable Land with a medium-high degree of environmental protection.
It is linked to an SCI, and has a very high botanical and ecological value due to the presence of holm oaks and holm oaks, the only redoubts in this part of the southeast.
It is also an important area of ​​distribution of the black turtle.
In 2013 the mayors of Puerto Lumbreras, Lorca, Vélez Rubio and Huércal-Overa pledged to protect it but now the PP of Lorca has broken that consensus and will allow building in the Lorca part
The councilor of United Left-Greens of Lorca, Gloria Martin, has denounced that Popular Party and Citizens have allied to modify the General Urban Plan of Lorca in order to expand the permitted uses in the Non-Urbanizable Protected Land of the Cabezo de La Jara and its surroundings, including the construction of single-family homes linked to plots of land between 30,000 and 50,000 m2.
A soil that has a medium-high degree of environmental protection due to the presence of holm oaks and holm oaks, the only redoubts in this part of the southeast, with a very high botanical and ecological value.
In addition, endemic species survive (Euphorbia briquetii, Lavandula lanata and Lavandula x losae), raptors and an important area of ​​distribution of the black turtle is located.
Martín recalled that the black turtle is included in the National Catalog of Threatened Species where it is considered of "Special Interest" (Royal Decree 439/1990).
The "Red Book of the Vertebrates of Spain" catalogs it as "endangered species".
In our Community, it appears as "vulnerable" in the Catalog of Threatened Species of the Region of Murcia of Law 7/95 of the Wild Fauna, which forces the elaboration of a Conservation Plan and the protection of its habitat.
But, for some, "these are things of the ecologists crazy, we are all spoilers," said the mayor of IU-V.
The Cabezo de la Jara has the peculiarity that it belongs to four municipalities: Puerto Lumbreras and Lorca (Murcia Region), and Vélez Rubio and Huércal-Overa (Andalusia).
It has environmental values ​​that make it a living classroom with a great potential for environmental dissemination and scientific research.
For this reason, in 2013 the mayors of these four municipalities met to discuss a common strategy to guarantee the protection, care and protection of a natural area that has the declaration of a Site of Community Interest (SCI) and which is integrated in the Natura 2000 Network, a European ecological network of biodiversity conservation areas that protects the most valuable and threatened habitats in Europe.
For this reason, the four mayors undertook to carry out actions of conservation and promotion of the forest mass, along with the preparation of reports of coordination between the different entities to know the state of conservation and protection of species.
However, at the last municipal plenary session, the local government team of the PP, with the complicit vote of the Councilor for Citizens, broke that consensus and decided that the Lorca part of the Cabezo de la Jara is also developable.
Izquierda Unida, once again remained alone defending this unique natural space, "being the only political force that voted against this reclassification," Martin recalled.
In this regard, the councilor said that "until Izquierda Unida does not participate in the municipal government, nobody will do anything from the City Council to protect our natural spaces."
Martín regretted that the PP Lorca and C's, have not had problems to set aside their supposed differences when it comes to attacking the environment to favor the particular interest.
"They have dusted off their membership card of 'urbanizers without frontiers' to modify the current urban plan in the General Plan and allow the headland La Jara is dotted with cases of 400 m2 linked to farms, in fact nonexistent."
Gloria Martín considered "terrible" that for the PP municipal government team, urban planning is not a tool to rationally and sustainably order our territory with criteria of general interest, but to give pleasure to very specific owners.
"The political responsible for ensuring the environment in the municipality is the same that is at the head of the Department of Urbanism," said Martin in reference to Saturnina Martinez.
As there is no counterbalance or balance of powers "the true nature of the Lorca right prevails", which is to turn the General Plan into a standard "of extraordinary laxity", which is changed "when they want to satisfy the desire of so-and-so or mengano to build or to speculate, although for this they have to check out spaces of a high ecological value, "he said.
Martín assured that there is no excuse that the LIC and the perimeter band have been excluded from this reclassification, "because the protected species do not understand cartography, they do not know that they have to stop 100 meters from the area where they have decided, in a way foolish, someone to urbanize. "
The councilor of IU-Greens censured the short-term mentality, selfish, predatory and greed without limits, protected by local power.
"We have the second largest municipal district in Spain and they have to authorize building precisely there, we have dozens of districts that are dying because of the depopulation effect and they are still betting on a model that disperses and isolates, demanding new services that this City Council can not pay, "he said.
In a nutshell, Martín warned that in five or ten years "the same ones who will now grant and collect the corresponding building permits will come loaded with reasons asking for asphalted roads, collectors, lighting or medical offices".
The sad history of the municipality since someone decided that, in one way or another, everything was going to be developable in Lorca.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca
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