Stumbling block for new leather industrial park
09/04/2010
Planning officials in the Peruvian city of Trujillo have called a halt to a proposed new leather industrial park there.
The project appeared to have won government approval in mid-March, but the head of a municipal development plan in Trujillo, Guillermo Malca Orbegoso, has come forward to say that the necessary permits to put the proposed site, in the district of El Porvenir, to industrial use are not yet in place.
He told local media: “No one can carry out any sort of investment project on that land. No one has given us any technical information about the proposed project, and we haven’t even been told how much of the 103-hectare site they intend to use.”
He also made the point that the land is currently registered for residential rather than industrial use and permission to change that will first require a series of preliminary exercises, including an environmental impact plan. Mr Malca Aguilar said that he didn’t think the leather park idea was a bad one, but that the community in Trujillo deserved to have the correct protocols followed.
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