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Pedro Sosa, spokesman councilor of Izquierda Unida Verdes in the town hall of Lorca has requested this morning to clarify the reasons why it was allowed a few days ago that a centennial oak fell in the vicinity of the Quijero Road.

During the month of December, a member of the Platform for Landscape Quality in Lorca, registered a letter addressed to the Department of Urban Planning for the inclusion of this specimen located on private land within the Catalog of Monumental Trees of Lorca.

But two months later, without having given an answer, the owners proceeded to its felling along with that of a large eucalyptus that was next to the oak, to the stupefaction of the members of said Platform.

Both trees were in a land that the General Plan qualifies as developable and on which there is a Partial Plan that could perfectly have assumed both trees within the green and free areas that Partial Plan must necessarily have when it is executed and materialized.

The letter in question was forwarded from Urban Planning to the Department of Parks and Gardens, however, the responsible councilor, Antonio Navarro, did not transfer it to the responsible technicians.

For this reason, Sosa asks: "How is it possible that an oak, which has lived more than a century, does not last a month, after a citizen goes to the City Council in writing requesting their protection?".

To avoid the impression that someone called these owners warning them of the intention of this Platform for the protection of this oak, which would have led to the alteration of the Partial Plan proposed, Sosa demands urgent explanations from Mr. Navarro as to why he did not give Transfer of this request to the technicians of your department and if they are not convincing, you will request their immediate resignation.

"Lorca cannot afford another insensitive government team that does not care if the few existing groves disappear or that the magnificent protected botanical specimens deteriorate," Sosa concluded, showing his deep disappointment with the new municipal officials, of whom he does not I hoped that they would become environmentalists overnight, but neither did this disregard the natural and botanical heritage.

Source: IU-verdes Lorca