The City Hall of Santa Cruz has culminated “an important milestone for the construction of 252 homes of social rental in Cuevas Blancas, located in the Southwest district of the capital”, according to the mayor, José Manuel Bermúdez, who argues that “it is one of the requests that we make to the Government of the Canary Islands from the so-called G4 of most populated municipalities of the Archipelago , where we request the necessary autonomy of local corporations to assume the construction capacity and thus gain administrative agility”.
The technical commission promoted by the Municipal Corporation has completed the award proposal for this work, which must be considered by the Department of Public Works, Transport and Housing of the Government of the Canary Islands -directed by the socialist Sebastián Franquis- in the collaboration agreement between the two administrations within the framework of the Canarian Housing Plan.
“The adjudication of the drafting of the Cuevas Blancas projects represents the largest public housing construction action carried out by any administration in our municipality in recent years,” said Juan José Martínez, councilor for the Housing area of the Santa Cruz City Council. The awarding of the drafting of the projects means bringing forward the signing of the agreement between the regional and local executives, “which is expected to be signed shortly in order to release a total of 343 public homes under a social rental system, adding those of La Monja street, where we have given land for another 90 homes. We have not waited for the signing of the agreement to start the process”, adds Martínez.
The technical adjudication table has proposed that the elaboration of the project of the more than 250 houses in Cuevas Blancas corresponds to the company Sic Arquitectura y Urbanismo SLP for a value of 457,397.33 euros.
The construction of the new homes will correspond to the City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife -which estimates a total investment of more than 20.5 million euros- in accordance with the conversations held between the mayor Bermúdez and the regional councilor Franquis in the face of the imminent signing of the Canarian Housing Plan, with regard to the actions that will be carried out in the capital of Tenerife.
Urban instruments
For these plots of the Southwest District, it will be necessary to carry out the urbanization and process an own urban planning instrument at the same time that the project is drawn up, due to the annulment of the General Planning Plan (PGO) and the entry into force of the basic adaptation of 2005 of the PGO of 1992.
Housing actions were paralyzed throughout the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands as a result of the 2008 economic crisis. In fact, the last installment of social homes took place in the summer of 2015, when more than 105 families accessed their homes. protected housing located in La Gallega.
On the other hand, the City Council has developed other new construction projects in El Tablero, with 44 homes, whose draw was made yesterday and they are already in the provisional adjudication phase; in María Jiménez, with another 37 homes in the project award proposal phase, as well as the subdivision and urbanization of another 92 houses on the La Monja plot, also in the Southwest district of the city.
