The City Council of La Laguna has proceeded this week, from the Citizen Security area, to the perimeter fencing of the car park that occupies the old San Benito station as a precautionary measure due to the risk of detachment of some of the elements of the infrastructure, with the consequent prohibition parking in the area, as reported by municipal sources.
The local Consistory has proceeded to this fencing at the request of the Government of the Canary Islands, which is still today the owner of the property, pointed out these same sources, since the administrative processing of the assignment of the space to the Laguna City Council has not yet been completed, that both administrations initialed at the end of last March. Therefore, the work that would have to be carried out in the area would still be the responsibility of the regional Executive, for the moment.
The old San Benito station has been closed for years and used as a car park and, at the end of March of this year, the mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, and the vice president of the Government of the Canary Islands, Román Rodríguez, formalized the agreement by which The regional Executive gives the City Council, for a period of 30 years, the use of the space, where the new Local Police station will be located. The Consistory has foreseen an investment of 1.1 million euros in three years for the remodeling of this space.
The old station occupies a plot of 7,150 square meters (with 1,022 built), whose heritage value is more than 2 million.
On the future of the car parks that currently occupy said station, the mayor indicated in March that the City Council has recently set up a plot on the nearby Camino de la Villa with a capacity for 60 parking spaces that are already in use.
