The Águilas City Council has proposed sanctions that exceed 80,000 euros for the plowing and earthworks of the Bella Águilas Partial Plan, which affected 4 hectares with outstanding environmental values. This is stated by the Association of Southeastern Naturalists (ANSE), which, acting as a complainant, has received the proposal for the file from the Urban Discipline Bureau of the Consistory.
In the proposal, the instructor states that works have been undertaken that were not foreseen in the approved Urbanization Project. For these events, two fines are proposed, one of 43,351.35 euros to Bella Águilas SA as promoter of the works and another equal to the two technical directors of the same. The amount of the sanctions is determined by the fact that the facts are considered a serious infraction, according to Law 13/2015 on Territorial and Urban Planning of the Region of Murcia.
The events date back to two years ago, when ANSE reported to different authorities (Águilas City Council, Autonomous Community and Prosecutor's Office) the destruction of protected flora species, as well as the alteration of fauna habitats also protected by plowing and earthworks. of 4 hectares carried out without a building permit and without the relevant authorizations. Among the environmental values of the area were large areas of natural vegetation with important environmental values, such as the cornical (Periploca angustifolia), the Senecio flavus, the black-eyed tortoise (Testudo graeca), the reddish scaup (Cercothricas galactotes) and the bullfinch. trumpeter (Bucanetes githagineus). The plowing was carried out days before the approval of the PGMO, “in an attempt to avoid the application of measures that this plan included to safeguard said values,” ANSE emphasizes.
After the complaint, the Águilas City Council ordered the immediate stoppage of the works a few days later and the Environmental Prosecutor's Office of the Region of Murcia referred, in September of that year, the case to the courts of Lorca upon understanding that crimes could have been committed. a crime against protected flora (article 332 of the Penal Code).
ANSE considers that “the interventions of the administrations send a clear message to promoters who intend to fail to comply with the environmental conditions of urban developments, putting the biodiversity and landscape of the Region at risk.” Furthermore, the association reiterates to the Autonomous Community “that it launches the mechanism legally provided for since 2013 to control compliance with the Environmental Impact Declarations of General and Partial Plans.” Finally, it asks the General Directorate of the Environment to “monitor the conditions of the General Plans and publish the environmental monitoring reports.”
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