Work on the La Campana industrial estate will resume before the end of November. This was announced yesterday by the president of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín, before holding a meeting at the island palace with businessmen in this field. The return of the works – after having had to terminate a previous contract due to breaches – occurs with more funds (they go from 10 to more than 13 million euros), with an execution period of “just over a year” and other novelties so that the action interferes as little as possible in the ordinary activity of the area.
«The Polígono de La Campana starts its works again; We plan that before the end of November we will already be in place to make up for lost time,” said the socialist politician in statements to the media. “They know of the interest of the Cabildo de Tenerife to solve the situation of one of the most deteriorated areas of industrial land on the island of Tenerife,” he said.
Martín highlighted that alternatives have been sought to try to generate as little “disruption as possible.” Specifically, he announced several news in this regard. «On the one hand, the working day will be from Wednesday to Sunday to try to take advantage of the weekends and, also, instead of starting at seven in the morning it will be done at ten so that those first hours allow the access of the workers to ships and customers. He also advanced that the asphalting will be carried out at night, “except on some exceptional occasion”, to hinder “traffic in the area as little as possible.”
The Tenerife president highlighted the Cabildo’s commitment to this work: “We strongly promote this project to resolve once and for all the situation of an industrial estate abandoned for many years and that in this term we have decided to resolve.” And he continued: «We had proposed an investment of approximately ten million euros; Those ten million are now a little more than thirteen.
The previous amount, as listed by Pedro Martín, joins others for the area, such as one and a half million euros for a local treatment plant and more than one million to improve the connection of the South motorway (TF-1) with the Polígono de La Campana, “because, when there were water runoffs, it reached the highway”.
The meeting this Monday between the island president and the businessmen took place at 4:00 p.m. and in it he explained the work plans and the conditions of the contract, as reported by the Cabildo in a press release after the meeting. The Minister of Employment and Socioeconomic Development and Foreign Action, Carmen Luz Baso, as well as representatives of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Urban Management Company (Gestur) and the winning joint venture.
More in detail, the new agreement was signed on November 15 with the UTE La Campana, made up of Satocan, Hidrotec and Ten Asfalto. Following the data provided by Martín, the forecast is that the work will continue for more than a year. “It is a complicated work because we are going to put the entire sewerage network, the telephone network and the electricity network new, and we will place sidewalks and lighting. It is a complete renovation. And that, logically, is going to take us a while,” he said, before adding that “it is not the same to be able to close an area and work from morning to night than having to make these cuts and leaving a few days off so that you can continue commercial activity in the area.
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Martín indicated that there is already some progress after the actions that were carried out previously, but that it is necessary to “fix some defects, improve issues that were not well resolved in the first phase and that led to having to reach an agreement with the company to terminate the contract. That determination, he said, was produced “by mutual agreement” and because “the path that the works were taking was not the one we liked.” “It was not going to look good,” he added.
He then set his sights on his stage in Guía de Isora. «My time as mayor for a few years has forced me to see things differently and to be on the job site; that what we do now allows the La Campana Industrial Estate to not cause any more problems in the coming decades and we can focus on the other industrial land on the Island that also have deficiencies,” he said.
