At the request of a group of farmers, the Councillor for Urban Planning held a meeting this Thursday to clarify the "erroneous" information published in a regional newspaper on the matter.
This Thursday, the IU-Greens councilor and head of Urban Planning for the Cieza City Council, Francisco Saorín has met with representatives of the agricultural sector of municipality for to refute the “alarmist” and “erroneous” headline published in a regional newspaper which says “Cieza will authorize pig farms far from the center”.
A press release issued by the Department of Urban Planning indicates that at the meeting, Saorín has explained to the farmers firsthand what the modification of the PGMO regarding the installation of pig farms entails. and other types of intensive livestock farming, confirming to them that Large-scale pig farms “cannot be authorized if they have a negative impact to the environment, if it causes harm to other economic activities, whether industrial, agricultural or cultural, or annoyance to citizens.”
Saorín has also been emphatic in stating: “we are aware that new livestock production systems, especially pig farms, through genetic selection, choice of appropriate species for housing, overcrowding of animals in small spaces and their total independence from agricultural land, along with poor slurry management, In the places where they have been established, they have brought with them a degradation of agricultural, landscape and environmental resources.”.
The city planning councillor has emphasized that “the municipal technical services have completed the preliminary draft of the project Amendment No. 11 to the General Municipal Planning Plan, related to 'Livestock use and operating conditions', so that The implementation, if applicable, will be carried out providing the maximum environmental guarantees and without harming the other sectors of our municipality”.
Finally, Saorín informed them that The progress report approved in the ordinary plenary session of February will be subject to public information for a period of one month., through its publication in the BORM and initiating the procedures for the strategic environmental assessment.