The risk of collapse of a building declared in ruins located on the first line forces the Güímar City Council to restrict the bathing area of El Tablado. To do this, he proceeded to fence off a section of the dock platform as a preventive measure and waiting for the Vice-Ministry of Territorial Planning of the Government of the Canary Islands, authority in the matter after the transfer of Coastal powers to the Autonomous Community, authorizes placing buoys to delimit the strip of sea in which bathing is prohibited.
Airam Puerta, Councilor for Urban Planning, explains that, together with the El Tablado Neighborhood Association, “we are trying to speed up the procedures to apply safeguard measures to avoid harm and harm to the population of the area.” The first deputy mayor also emphasizes that “everything has its deadlines.”
The future of the building in a dilapidated state, he recalls, is its demolition, “given the impossibility of restoring it” taking into account its situation. This work must be done by the property before the middle of next July, the period granted by the municipal government for it and to remove the debris derived from the action, based on technical reports. Otherwise, it will be the City Council itself that executes the demolition on a subsidiary basis.
Puerta calls on the residents and users of the El Tablado bathing area to act responsibly and respect the limitations established by the authorities in order to avoid possible incidents.
“We are going to current, because there is a real danger that bathers invade a space in which the property can fall, since that house cannot be rehabilitated, nor can it be preserved or restored,” explained the Socialist councilor.
From the Neighborhood Association, through their accounts on social networks, they ask for “respect for excessive measures” (that is how they consider them) until the buoys are placed. The objective of the group is to “reduce the area of the fence”, but “the municipal technician does not see it as viable.” The association warns that such measures “could get worse until we achieve the reduction of the space with buoys.”
