Akamas - Red Alert

Fri Jan 08, 2016

08:15

Location

Parliament
Nicosia, Nicosia

Description

Crucial demonstration outside parliament!

This coming Friday, 8/1/2016 the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Nicos Kouyialis, will be presenting the catastrophic and condemnable proposal of the Ministerial Committee for Akamas to the Parliamentary Committee on the Environment, according to which:

➢ The Akamas National Forest Park will only include state forest and hali land which means that the privately-owned land situated within the Akamas National Forest will ΝΟΤ be part of the National Forest Park. In this way, the Akamas National Forest will be transformed into a field of large private developments.

➢ A new Master Plan will be prepared by the Town Planning Department and the planning zones within the wider protected area of Natura 2000 will be revised in such a way that they will give the green light to real estate development in the Akamas peninsula.

➢ Previous Ministerial Decisions from 2005 onwards will be revised and will overturn the guidelines of the Akamas Peninsula Management Plan, according to which, any town planning, residential and touristic development is prohibited in highly sensitive ecological areas and areas of rare natural beauty. At the same time, the Management Plan dictates that all privately owned properties within the National Forest Park of Akamas should be acquired by the state, through financial compensation and/or the exchange of private property with state-owned land of equal value.

We all have an obligation to be present at the demonstration with placards, banners and whistles! We need to make sure that the Ministerial Committee proposal will not pass!

Be outside Parliament this coming Friday, 8/1/2016 at 08:15! Together we can stop the schemes of the Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment and the Ministerial Committee’s proposal.

The commons are NOT the property of a few! Akamas belongs to us ALL!

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