La Lajita 2000 again calls for dialogue with the City Council after months of no response

The landowners of the La Lajita 2000 industrial estate have publicly expressed their “deep disappointment” over the Pájara administration’s failure to answer repeated meeting requests filed in recent months.

According to the owners, up to four formal petitions have been submitted, each logged with the town hall, seeking a meeting with the mayor. None received a reply, except for the latest, in which the council indicated that the estate’s Compensation Board had been dissolved. In that same communication, the town hall urged the owners to submit their requests individually.

In response, the owners stress that the Compensation Board is not liquidated, retains its own legal personality, and its president is obliged to safeguard the rights and interests of the collective. They also note that one board member filed a new individual meeting request on 1 September, which remains unanswered to date.

“The meeting with the Canary Islands Government was solely to discuss protected housing.”

The tension escalated after the town hall criticised a meeting held between the owners and the Canary Islands Government’s Housing Minister. The council labelled the encounter a “lack of institutional loyalty,” while the owners argue that the discussion was exclusively about protected housing promoted by private developers, a matter that falls under the exclusive competence of the regional executive.

The La Lajita 2000 promoters find the municipal stance contradictory:

“On the one hand, we are asked to act as private individuals; on the other, we are reproached for meeting other institutions in that capacity.”

Consequently, they demand institutional respect, consistency, and a genuine willingness to dialogue, emphasizing in a press release that they are fully “ready to seek joint solutions that allow balanced development of the area and unblock the current stalemate.”

La Lajita 2000 Defends Housing Construction as a “Collective Need”

The promoters of the La Lajita 2000 Partial Plan have, over the past months, undertaken a series of actions to defend their rights, invite local owners and residents to join the cause, and publicise what they describe on their website, www.lalajita2000.com, as an alternative to Fuerteventura’s housing emergency.

With more than 2,000 housing units projected, the Compensation Board repeatedly stresses that the partial plan offers an “immediate response to a collective need.”

The owners maintain that dialogue with the municipal authorities is essential to move forward with a project that could significantly alleviate the island’s housing shortage.