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Already three months ago, the 27 of February, with regard to the anticipated thing in the General Plan Secreto de Nigrán and before certain unfortunate filtrations, we titled thus:

Monteferro is not intact

The zone indicated in yellow, that it corresponds mostly to the property of the Rapón, wants to recalificar it how “rustic Ground of forest interest” being lost the protection of natural spaces.

Since you remember we did entinces a campaign of letter shipment to the Consellería de Territorial Política, soliciing that informed this recalificación negatively. They were sent near 500 letters.

Then, the report of the Xunta says very textually:

“It is not justified that this land strip has a smaller protection than the one of natural space that corresponds to him to have to the zone”

It is not the only pull of ears that the Consellería gives to the call “Special Plan of Protección and Acondicionamento de Monteferro”, which more down we reproduce.

The vision of the mount that presents/displays east Plan is the one of a space to visit in car, plenty of parkings and ways asphalted throughout.

Speech of facilities and dowries of services, the volumetría Maxima (still to need) of these constructions, a wharf in the light, “general road Network” of the mount…

In this asphalt sense “at all costs” it emphasizes the qualification of the forest road of slope by the South face like avenue of type IV, that is to say, of 12 meters wide.

The report of the Xunta considers that this Plan “outlines performances that can harm the rustic ground regime of protection of natural spaces” We thought that they did not have to make an effort to arrive the this conclusion much.

Next we reproduce the complete text of this invention. The emphasized one in negrita (where there is tomato) is ours, and ours they are also the commentaries that you can read locating the mouse in the sites indicated in blue.

Art. 75. PE-2. Special plan of Protección and Acondicionamento de Monteferro.

1. In the scope defined in planes of arrangement with the classification of rustic ground of protection of natural and forest spaces a Special Plan with the following objectives will form:

   • To protect the forest natural landscape of the peninsula of Monteferro as natural park of public, equipped and fit use for this assignment.

   • To dictate the norms for the protection of the archaeological patrimony, causing its incorporation to the benefit of the natural space by means of the definition of accesses public.

   • Preveer the accesses rollings and peatonales accommodated with attached definition of parking areas to facilitate the public use of the park and the connections to the monument of Universal Navy, Light of Meda and foreseeable areas qualified for viewpoints and areas of rest and leisure.

   • To establish a zonificación based on the direction, lines of vision, vegetation and slopes, defined for five basic zones:

     zone of entrance, reception and service;

     zone of viewpoints;

     areas of leisure and parking;

     marine zone of the light;

     zone of natural vegetation.

   • To fix unitary and homogenous criteria for the anticipated facilities to the relative one to volumetria Maxima, fits to the land, respect to the vegetation. materials. etc.

     
     

   • Establishment of the basic norms of agreed urbanization and acondicionamento with the character of natural space of the scope.

     
     

2. The Special Plan, as minimum, will define the following elements:

   
   

   • Acondicionamento and access by means of coastal stroll to the areas of pebbles, beaches (White Portocelo, Rocks, etc.) by means of marine coastal stroll.

     
     

   • Wharf in Light of Meda.

     
     

   • General road network of access to zones specialized with storing of aparcamento areas.

     
     

   • Areas and facilities for dowry and services, including the plantation and ajardinamento of the leisure areas, viewpoints and parkings.

     
     

   • Landscaping adjustment of the natural areas, including the reforestation with native species accommodated to the natural contour.

     
     

   • Treatment of the archaeological patrimony, by means of its investigation, recovery and incorporation to the itineraries in the park.

     
     

3. In the area described like as forest protection, the uses established in article 33 of the LOUG, section 2 letters and), g) and j are tolerated), with the established conditions of construction in article 42 of the LOUG, except in which it talks about to the peak altitude that will be of a plant equivalent to 3.5 meters and to the occupation by the construction that will not be able to exceed 10%.

   
   

Up to here the Special Plan for Monteferro anticipated in the General Plan. The end of the Monteferro that we want. At the moment to compare it with the norms in vigor, gives panic. The loss of protection is enormous. In case you want to compare and to feel the panic, here they are:

1. This decree intends the preservation of the natural conditions of a zone of the coast of the Municipality that comprises fundamental of a scope of the landscape that has been characterized in the course of the time by its preminencia in the set of Bays it, with a level of very singular forestación that turns to him referring landscaping and an environmental one. Its scope of application comes established in the corresponding planes of arrangement and includes/understands Monteferro and the adjacent small barren islands and coastal rocks.

   
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1. Specifically they will be prohibited:

   • All type of earthwork, excavation the fillings that aside from the topographic modification imply the destruction of the existing flora.

   • The operation of quarries, extraction and/or transports.

   • Any type of spills of remainders (solid or liquid).

   • He fence or closing of property with materials of traditional dimensions different from the already existing ones. In any case in the new closings ligneous materials, stony or alive fences will only be able to be used not being able to surpass the opaque part the 0.50 M.s

   • Any type of construction, with the exception of assigned to the national defense or existing or future the clearly assignable east destiny and the tie ones to the uses tolerated before mentioned.

   • The positioning of posters the advertising announcements.

   • He asphalt paving of new ways. The conservation and improves of the existing ones will take control exclusively of stony materials in dry. Equal minimum and limited areas of parking with the purpose of avoiding the invasion of automobiles of the naturally accessible zones will treat.

   • The hoisted cutting of that it does not take place by selects.

     
     

2. He adjustment of the ways or peatonales footpaths, the boundary of viewpoints, etc, will become of the possible most concise form.

   
   

Government reporter of the Province of Pontevedra
(Number: 271, of the 23 of November of 1,991, page 40)