About spatial planning

Spatial planning refers to the methods used by the public sector to organise the ways in which land may be used and activities carried out in an island's territory.

The purpose of spatial planning is to rationalize the activities that can be carried out in a territory from a perspective that is higher than the local level.

Spatial planning by the Council of Tenerife

The Island Council has direct and indirect competence in the following affairs:

The regional government routinely requests the Island Council to draft the PIOT and plans for spatial planning.

The procedure consists in ratification of the draft, either preliminary or temporary, as the case may be, prior to final ratification of a Plan. During the processing period, the Plans are published for the citizens to consult and make any allegations they deem convenient.

The Island Council is competent to give the final ratification of Special Plans for Spatial Planning to implement the PIOT. All other cases are ratified by the Autonomous Region's government.

* Legislative Decree 1/2000, of the 8th of May, which ratifies the revised text of the Spatial Planning Laws of the Canary Islands and the Canary Islands Nature Areas.

Go to the Spatial Plan for Tenerife Island and the plans by which it is implemented for further information Plan Insular de OrdenaciĆ³n de Tenerife and plans.


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