This morning’s searches at the Vieira do Minho Chamber originated in a complaint about the construction of “luxury villas” in the Caniçada Dam that run counter to the Land Use Plan in that area, Lusa confirmed an autonomous source.
The complaint was made by the group Indignados de Louredo, whose representative, Clemente Pinto, explained to Lusa that the initial complaints aimed at the construction of two houses in places integrated in the National Ecological Reserve (REN) and under the scope of the Caniçada Albufeira Management Plan. (POAC), located right in the margin of that reservoir and on a third construction in the National Agricultural Reserve (RAN).
In 2017, an opinion from the General Inspection of Agriculture, Sea, Environment and Spatial Planning (IGAMAOT), to which Lusa had access today, gave reason to the group, arguing that the “inspection conclusions show the presence of an expressive set of urban operations or actions carried out in spite of the POAC prescriptions, materialized by acts of urban management, or by material acts without prior control ”.
The same document also highlights: “the analysis carried out in the part regarding the obtaining of building capacity through the modification of the building description and the mechanisms for recognizing ruins, determinant circumstances of the practice of administrative acts whose legality is questioned”.
“This is already a process that started even though the current mayor was only vice-president. The population realized that two luxury villas were built on a land where there was nothing and that the plan for the area was to build more, with a kind of private beach that would restrict access, which is public, to the reservoir ” said Clemente Pinto.
The group, which guarantees to have made the complaint “with all possible documents to several entities, namely to the Public Prosecutor’s Office”, explains that the genesis of the various illegalities is the fact that the constructions were made on a land where nothing could be built , “Unless there was a construction before 1951 (date established by the General Regulation of Urban Buildings (RGEU)”.
The Indignados de Louredo argue that “there was nothing there and suddenly a photograph of a building appeared, that neither a house would be, but a corral, as proof that there was a construction there. After some searching, this photograph was identified as being of a building in the parish of Rossas ”, so the group points out as“ being false ”the declaration by the Louredo Parish Council that certifies the existence of a building in the area.
The IGAMAOT investigation also identified other cases such as those referred to, and the report “intended to identify all relevant administrative acts associated with the eventual granting of 43 identified situations, 24 in the municipality of Terras do Bouro and 19 in Vieira do Minho, all with“ repercussions on REN ”and the majority even having“ interference in the reserved area ”.
So far, it has not been possible to obtain reactions from the Vieira do Minho municipality.
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