The nine councils in the south of Tenerife hope to promote key works this year that will facilitate the mobility of citizens, improve socio-sanitary resources, reinforce the commitment to sustainability and the environment and put an end to the old sanitation problems in the region. With the elections just around the corner, time is running out.
ARONA
Arona will open the civic centers of Las Galletas and Buzanada to the public. In addition, the bidding process will begin to repair the Los Tarajales promenade, in Los Cristianos, affected by the tides. Another outstanding project will be the first rehabilitation of public housing in the municipality, specifically in Guargacho. The work is in the award process. In this same nucleus, a public land will be created as a car park.
The City Council trusts that the Ministry of Education will inaugurate once and for all the Parque La Reina Institute, which is up to three years late and that it will replace the IES Guaza, known as the “barracones” institute. It also underlines the drafting, this year, of the project for the connection between the port of Los Cristianos and the motorway, for which the State will allocate 5 million euros.
The Cabildo contemplates works worth 12.5 million, including firm rehabilitation, various hydraulic works and the adaptation of the Las Vistas promenade, in Los Cristianos.
The mayor of Arona, José Julián Mena (PSOE), describes 2023 as a “key year” for the municipality and highlights the inclusion of “historic demands” in sanitation, public housing, education, health and the environment.
ADEJE
After completing the largest investment in its history, with 20 million euros, used, among other projects, in the remodeling of the theater of the cultural center or the new Plaza de San Sebastián, the Adeje City Council hopes to reuse the remnants to advance in the plan to improve public roads, condition cultural spaces, finish the new theatre, undertake the final phase of Plaza España, renovate and expand the nursery and take the first steps in its great commitment to sport: the project of a new stadium.
It is also expected to start the final phase of the Productive Forest and the Central Park with a building that will house a market. In addition, the City Council projects several buildings for public services and an ambitious plan for greenways to link the tourist Adeje with the historic Adeje, which includes energy saving and efficiency measures, as well as infrastructures and roads that facilitate mobility throughout the municipality. The project includes a pedestrian bridge with a bike lane that will link Fañabé with the entrance to Adeje and improvements in the accesses and exits of the municipality. There are also planned structuring roads that will link Adeje through the coastal area.
The mayor, José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga (PSOE), told this newspaper that the objective is to “improve all municipal infrastructure so that it benefits both residents and visitors, improving mobility, trying to alleviate the consumption of resources and laying the bases of a comfortable and sustainable Adeje”.
ABONA GRANADILLA
Granadilla de Abona marks as one of its priorities the improvement of the security of the municipality that “grows the most in population of the Canary Islands”, recalls its mayor, José Domingo Regalado (CC). In this sense, the number of Local Police agents will be increased to 61, the fleet of vehicles and motorcycles will be renewed and, in addition, construction will begin this year on the new Local Police station on an area of 1,221 square meters of the urban area, specifically at the intersection of Fundador Gonzalo González avenue, at the intersection of the TF-64 highway, with the La Cima passage.
But the objectives for the new year also include the Cine Novedades, in Charco del Pino, which will be transformed into a theater and cinema with capacity for 400 people; the Farmer’s Market in La Jurada (San Isidro), with a sales area of 1,400 square meters, more than a hundred car parks, a cafeteria, a training room, a playground and a plaza; and tender a functional home and day center, located on Benito Pérez Galdós avenue in San Isidro. It will have 15 accommodation places and a day center for 30 people. The building will be built on a municipal plot where the future residence for the elderly will be located, for which the City Council has ceded land to the Cabildo.
SAN MIGUEL DE ABONA
San Miguel de Abona hopes that the Ministry of Health will finally open the Llano del Camello Health Center in the coming weeks, whose works have already finished a little over a year late. The dependencies will put an end to the saturation suffered by the Las Chafiras medical office, next to the Farmer’s Market. Another highly anticipated service is the start-up, foreseeably before the summer, of the Alborada nursing home 24 hours a day.
But the mayor, Arturo González (CC), demands, in the chapter on priorities, “more sensitivity” to the Cabildo in terms of roads and a “greater involvement” of the Government of the Canary Islands against illegal occupations on rural land. “He must exercise his powers in matters of urban discipline,” stresses the councilor, who also calls on the Executive to “regulate” vacation rentals to alleviate the housing shortage in the region.
ISORA GUIDE
Guía de Isora hopes that in the new year works will be finalized or definitively promoted to increase resources for social and health care, facilitate pedestrian accessibility, parking and improve traffic. Once again, the great priority is the residence for the elderly, which will have 75 beds and 25 day care. Work will begin shortly on the last phase, for a value of 1.5 million euros, which will consist of the electrical equipment and the final touches.
The Isorana mayoress, Josefa Mesa (PSOE), also highlights another work that, like the residence for the elderly, has the involvement of the Cabildo: the public parking of El Pilón, in the town of Guía, for an amount greater than 2.2 million euros. The City Council hopes to be able to start the bidding process in the first quarter of the year. Also in the urban area, the municipal swimming pool will be reformed, the work of which, already underway, will be completed within a period of three months.
The priorities are completed with the beginning of the works to improve the crossing of Alcalá, on the TF-47, by the Cabildo. The project will increase road safety and improve conditions for pedestrian access to businesses in the area.
SANTIAGO DEL TEIDE
The mayor of Santiago del Teide, Emilio Navarro (PP), recalls that the Hospital del Sur must be completed without further delay “to be a real hospital”, but he also emphasizes mobility problems on the roads and underlines how For example, the “chaos” of traffic that thousands of motorists endure every day between Adeje and Guaza. In the chapter on roads, he is also committed to giving a boost to the Alcalá ring road, to solve “a huge problem” in the region, as well as the fourth lane between Santiago del Teide and Adeje. In addition, he is also confident that the new year will bring improvements to educational infrastructures and more social and health centers in the region.
ARICO
In 2023, Arico will undertake urbanization, maintenance and improvement works for public spaces in La Sabinita, Las Listadas, Las Arenas, El Río and Arico Viejo for a value of 320,000 euros. It has also approved an investment of 112,000 euros to resurface municipal roads and an additional 80,000 euros that will be used for direct improvements in the water supply network.
At the same time, with the funds of the Cabildo, “via an amendment of the opposition to the budgets”, recalls the local Executive, the sports facilities, playgrounds and public lighting on the coast of the municipality will be improved. The mayor, Sebastián Martín (PA), stressed that this year the Las Listadas water supply project will be consolidated, for 485,000 euros, committed in the budget of the Autonomous Community. The municipal government also reminds the Government of the Canary Islands of the “need” to build a school and a health center in the coastal area.
FASNIA
Fasnia faces 2023 with the works, already underway, on the Las Eras breakwater, which will guarantee the use of the beach 365 days a year, and the Los Roques coastline, which will allow the recovery of the promenade, closed more than 10 years and will mean winning a new beach in front of the Bahía apartments. This was explained by the mayor, Luis Javier González (PSOE), who also highlighted the rehabilitation of the old cinema to transform it into a cultural space with more than 200 seats where events can be held without depending on the state of the weather.
In the upper part, the municipal shelter of La Zarza will facilitate overnight stays for groups of hikers, which will have an impact on the economic development of this nucleus. The end of the political mandate in Fasnia coincides with a “rain of works”, in the opinion of its mayor, who also highlights asphalting, pedestrianization and rehabilitation works in different areas of the municipality.
VILAFLOR DE CHASNA
The expectations of Vilaflor de Chasna go forward this year to tender and execute the pedestrian promenade of La Escalona for 1.1 million euros, a work demanded for years by the residents that will be executed by the City Council and subsidized by the Cabildo.
Priorities also include the Angola-El Salguero pumping station, with a global investment of 700,000 euros; the completion of the embellishment work on the Water Mill, the recovery of the La Escalona water supply tank (for 250,000 euros) and the progress of the Huerta Grande Eco Rural.
The Consistory also hopes that the Cabildo tenders and begins the reform works of the municipal cemetery and the Casa de Los Soler, one of the great historical buildings in the entire South.
“There are many projects to be done, many more to be achieved and we face it with the same illusion, courage and desire to work for the citizenry”, underlines the mayoress Agustina Beltrán (PSOE).
