The General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea, dependent on the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has granted the Town Hall of Puerto de la Cruz the concession of the swimming pools that make up the Lago Martianez for another 15 years.
The extension for the occupation of the maritime-terrestrial public domain, which covers a total of 60,000 square meters, may be extended up to a maximum of three decades “if the causes that motivated the granting persist, reviewing the characteristics and compliance with the conditions of the current concession”, as published yesterday in the Official State Gazette (BOE).
The fee to be paid by the Consistory to Costs from now on is 100,200 euros per year. This was one of the most complex points in the negotiation between the two administrations, which began in the previous mandate and which highlighted the importance of Lago Martiánez as an open-air art museum, a space of cultural interest and a Heritage Site. Cultural Interest (BIC), an aspect that was not contemplated in the Coast regulations. This was decisive in setting the canon, whose amount in recent years was “symbolic”, barely 5,000 euros per year.
But with the change in regulations to renew the concession, the state department came to ask for up to 1.2 million, as the former Treasury councilor, Sandra Rodríguez, pointed out at the time.
“Some work that began in the previous mandate is completed. When this government group arrived, the requirement that Isla del Lago was not going to have a hotel use or exploitation was met, but rather it was going to become a cultural space for the municipality,” declared the mayor, Marco González.
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“We are happy because the completion of this procedure clarifies and clears up doubts, it gives us security at the time of processing, we solve a problem, we can continue advancing in the liquidation of Pamarsa, which is a quite complex process, and working to empower the work of César Manrique, which this government has taken as a badge and has opted for the Lake as never before”, stressed the president.
