IU attempt to catalog the issue in 2002, but the Council did not take the proposal on the revision of the General Plan of Lorca
The Spokesman of the Municipal Group of IU-V in the city of Lorca, Jose Garcia Murcia has called this morning the sudden resignation of Councillor to which commissioned the environment in the city of Lorca, Saturnino Martinez, not having prevented the removal of a stone pine of about three hundred years located in the southern area of ​​the round, in the vicinity of the vineyard.
It is in the mayor of IU-V, a copy of which characterized the area and gave him a rich landscape environment important opinion.
He was in a city that was recently alienated for the construction of a large surface lot.
The council must make the sale conditional to salvation in this important botanical specimen, said Councilman IU.
As early as 2002, IU-V tried that tree were protected by their inclusion in the list of protected trees of the land-use planning, but the initiative of IU was not granted by the municipal government of the time.
The mayor of IU-V lamented that every new work that the Council undertakes, always disturb the trees, precisely in a city that has such a large woodland as Lorca deficit.
G. Pepe Murcia recalled that this new episode of the "arboricidios" adds committed in the area of ​​the Rambla de Tiata where have sacrificed hundred trees, including orange and mulberry trees, or the most recent felling of trees during the remodeling of San Diego.
Source: IU-verdes Lorca