laguna del torollo

A big thanks to our friends of Defensa rural de Gijon for the inclusion of our web on their page. Like us, they are fighting to maintain rural Asturian life.

As they mention on their web: "Our aim is to protect and to promote our rural way of life, not only of this valley parish, but of all the countryside of the Principality of Asturias. We look for justice in agreement with the guarantees that are offered by Law, the Spanish Constitution and European and International Legislation.".

Today we received some photos of the Torollo forrest in San Claudio by email. Thank you very much! It is the best way to show everyone what will be lost.



Please keep on sending us your photos! Our email appears in the section "contact us".

One of the local newspapers is running a story summarising yesterdays abuse of power by the City council. Two interesting issues are raised. The development plan that was approved yesterday leaves some important questions unanswered, like how the new development areas will be accessed by road.
One of the opposition councilman asked why only 5 percent of the allegations were finally accepted, and why 70 percent of this 5 percent were allegations made by real estate and building companies. It seems that the new plan only covers particular (private) needs and never general interests. No answer was provided to either two.

According to the Voice of Asturias [lavozdeasturias.es] of today.

Although none of the groups that presented allegations to the revision of the PGOU received any reply sofar, the new development plan will be be approved today by the plenary session. Over a thousand signatures were collected to re-emphasize the point we were making to the City council.

None (!) of the allegations have counted with the approval of the editors of the plan. This is a definite abuse of authority, as the plan will receive its go ahead without any of the allegations even being answered.

We will be looking to see how we can forward our protest to the European Commission.

We received a few photos of a group of neighbors of San Claudio.

The photo was taken from the road bordering the Payán forrest, close to the Torollo lagoon. Please continue sending your photos to lagunadeltorollo at yahoo com!