Most of the elements are in the Southwest district, and until the 2013 General Plan fell, they were listed as assets of the ethnographic heritage of the capital. With the fall of the PGO, these elements were left without any type of protection. This has forced the Urban Planning Management to issue an internal circular, which details that, for those elements not declared BIC, and not cataloged by the Basic Adaptation of the PGO of 2005, any technical report issued on them must be done taking into account the values that these assets have been recognized by the 2013 Plan, thus avoiding any urban action that could endanger them.
This is the response that the Urban Planning management has given to the PSOE, who asked about the measures that are being carried out in the protection of each element (susceptible to protection) in the Southwest ethnographic park.
Stable urban planning insular area of Historical Heritage for report. “With this instruction, available on the Management website, the protection of any element with cultural values that exists in the municipality is guaranteed, including assets with ethnographic values from the Southwest”, explained yesterday the mayor of the area, Carlos Tarife.
Of the list of 29 properties, only three have the BIC category: the Barranco Grande mill, the Cuevas Blancas mill, and the Llano del Moro mill. The rest of the ethnographic elements, ranging from the Camino Real, eras, an aqueduct to a dam, do not have the effective protection of a catalog, although Tarife assures that they will have it in the next one, whose draft, in agreement with the Cabildo de Tenerife, it is already drawn up, and that it hopes to approve before the end of the year.
Plan of El Toscal
The mayor of Urbanism, in response to a question from Cs about the El Toscal Special Plan, which has been one step away from being definitively approved for years, but which, for one reason or another, always ends up delaying that possibility. The document is in its last process, for the umpteenth time. As Tarife explains, “the environmental document that the Government of the Canary Islands had requested from us has already been drawn up. We will approve it in the next Governing Council and we will send it to the environmental body. The Government has two months to answer, but we trust that it does not exhaust them and answer before, so that we can approve the Plan before the end of the year ”, explained the mayor.
