Piolp land uses

The predominance of residential use is detected, mainly in the central urban areas, but there are also large tracts of land with the classification of rural or agricultural settlement in rustic soil. The existing specialised industrial land is scarce and located next to the port of Santa Cruz de La Palma, Breña Baja and Villa de Mazo in the East, and El Paso and Los Llanos de Aridane to the west. The forecasts of industrial urbanizable land tend to reinforce the locations of these areas in addition to the creation of new industrial areas in other parts of the island. Regarding tourist use we also see the low territorial indecency of urban land specialised in this use, highlighting Los Cancajos, as the largest extension of tourist urban land and Puerto Naos, along with other minor locations in Breña Baja or Charco Verde (classified as urban land despite the absence of building). The forecasts of urbanizable land for tourist use, contained in the local planning or in the PTEOAT, considerably expand the amount of land with this destination, tending to strengthen existing locations, in particular Los Cancajos and Puerto Naos, where the largest extensions and to a lesser extent new locations are foreseen, in some cases already consolidated. Among the new areas of urbanizable land we highlight the tourist locations coinciding between the local planning and the PTEOAT, in Fuencaliente, Barlovento, others that only appear in the local planning such as the wide areas of Los Llanos de Aridane and other minors in Villa de Mazo, Puntallana and Garafía. It is worth noting the high incidence of rural and agricultural settlements, which involve the occupation of a large area, often with extremely low densities and even occupying large uneducated areas. This classification tends to support the dynamics of dispersion and construction of residence on rustic soil. The more detailed study of the criteria and forms of these settlements is a priority objective of the Plan, as a basis for establishing criteria that regulate this trend, as well as homogeneous bases for the delimitation of rural and agricultural nuclei by the municipal general plans. Different degrees of evolution in the formation and transformation of settlements are visible that allow us to foresee the criteria to be established. It highlights the high concentration of uses and activities in the center of the island, and the low land use at the extremes North and South. A first approach already draws central areas, to the east and west, where the occupied land is concentrated, as well as the forecasts of new occupations, regardless of the use in question, residential, industrial or tourist.