The Vice-Ministry for the Fight against Climate Change and Ecological Transition expands the sphere of influence of the Special Plan for the Protection of the Historic Complex of Güímar. At the same time, the process to issue the corresponding simplified strategic environmental assessment begins. With this, the Canary Islands Government promotes a management of the area affected by this document. The publication yesterday of an announcement in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands (BOC) opens the period of 45 business days for consultation and the presentation of allegations, both by public administrations and by those who are affected by the Plan.
The historic center of Güímar is a space that has been declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC), with the category of a historic complex. The new document arises in application of the Cultural Heritage Law of the Canary Islands, which considers the drafting of a specific special plan for this area to be “essential”.
This BIC includes very significant and emblematic buildings for the güimareros, such as the church of San Pedro Apóstol, the Town Hall (a former Dominican convent), the church of Santo Domingo and the chapel of San Pedro Abajo, as well as relevant urban spaces such as the squares of San Pedro and the City Hall, as well as the streets Santo Domingo, San Pedro de Abajo and San Pedro de Arriba.
The territorial scope of the Special Plan for the Protection of the Historic Complex will incorporate San Pedro Arriba street (but not the square) and the homonymous chapel, at the proposal of the Güímar City Council, into the space cataloged as BIC. Residential, commercial, tourist, restaurants, offices and offices coexist in this territory.
The old Post Office building, the Casona de Santo Domingo, the Fonda Medina, the Casa del Coronel and the agro-industrial warehouses are properties included in the Plan that are either in disuse or have come to change the activity for which they were created. To them, 35 roads or sections are added, among which are Obispo Pérez Cáceres and Pedro Guerra Cabrera avenues, as well as Santo Domingo street, 14 alleys and a pedestrian promenade, Niceto Alberto Díaz.
