The Candelaria City Council commissioned the project to request again the concession of the maritime-land public domain that affects the facilities of the municipal swimming pool, which is limited to the pool and the surrounding promenade.
The Consistory initiated a new file in 2011, which was unsuccessful, opening another request in 2015 to regularize the situation, which culminated in the refusal of the General Directorate of the Coast and the Sea in Madrid last January«despite the fact that the proposal had favorable reports from the Provincial Coastal Services in Tenerife», recalled the mayoress, Mari Brito.
The concession of the municipal swimming pool to the City Council of Candelaria dates from 1970, for a period of 15 years. Consequently, that authorization expired in 1985 and was not renewed, as the Consistory has stated on various occasions.
Since January, coinciding with the transfer of powers in matters of Coasts, “the City Council works with the Government of the Canary Islands in order to process a new concession application, with a new project that saves the objections that Madrid has considered ».
The government group insisted on defending “the initial proposal” by filing an appeal before the National Court, in addition to finalizing the request for precautionary measures.
at the time, The City Council sought alternatives for the population, so in July “it will start a weekly activity that will include an hour of therapeutic swimming in a heated pool and sports classes aimed at users of the Comprehensive Recovery Center (CERI) and the Antón Senior Association Guanche». In addition, it values initiatives aimed at the general population, by virtue of the agreements it reaches with sports centers. Interested persons may register, from June 1, at the CERI (922500800), extension 1214.
The Candelaria City Council disposed of the 4,205 square meters of maritime-land public domain that the municipal swimming pool occupies from 1970 to 2020, when it closed it due to the covid and could not reopen it when the authorization was required, according to a report from the Secretary of the Corporation .
It was in 1992 when the local government of the time requested the renewal of the concession for the first time. The penultimate petition dates from 2011, a file that was not completed. The central government resolved the file raised in 2015 in 2018 and denied the administrative concession in January 2020.
It should be remembered that in 2020 the Candelaria Plenary approved the specifications imposed by Costas in response to the last concession request. It included a fee of more than 70,000 euros, which the City Council reduced to just over 40,000, as well as public access to the coast –which the commissioned project must consider– and to stop charging for the use of the pool, despite imposing a Canyon. Finally, he denied the administrative concession.
