The island groups of the Canarian Coalition, the Popular Party (which make up the island Government) and the Mixed Government (Vox) in the Tenerife Cabildo will present a motion to the plenary session tomorrow in which they propose modifying the urban planning instruments that allow achieving the objectives of the Plan. Santa Cruz Verde 2030.
Specifically, the motion urges the Government of the Canary Islands to process – under article 168 of Law 4/2017 on Land and Protected Natural Spaces of the Canary Islands – the procedure for suspending the planning instruments that affect the scope of the land occupied by the Refinery, in order to achieve management in a single instrument that responds to the objectives of the Santa Cruz Verde 2030 Plan and coordinates the powers and interests of all the administrations and agents involved.
This motion supports the formal request recently made by the mayor of Santa Cruz, José Manuel Bermúdez, to the Government of the Canary Islands for the suspension of planning on the land occupied by the Refinery in order to proceed with the planning of the future lands it occupies today, with the objective of advancing the development of the Santa Cruz Verde 2030 Plan.
In the motion signed by the spokespersons Lope Afonso (PP), José Miguel Ruano (CC) and Naim Valerio Yánez (Vox), they also propose that “the modification of the PIOT be processed in the field of the Refinery, with the purpose of incorporate strategic and insular planning, derived from the planning instruments developed after the suspension of the current planning, allowing to promote the fulfillment of the expansion objectives of the capital of the Island from the territorial and ecological transition point of view. .
Likewise, the three political groups request that “the procedures for any other necessary action in urban and territorial planning instruments be initiated, as well as the study of the legal forms that should be carried out between public administrations and the Cepsa company.”
Likewise, they propose planning the actions to be carried out at the territorial level based on criteria of sustainability and environmental energy efficiency.
In the text they recall that “the plans of the capital City Council, to continue with the expansion of the city and its opening towards the sea, together with the project to definitively close the company’s industrial activity in the capital, gave rise, in June 2018, to the collaboration agreement for the Santa Cruz Verde 2030 Plan, consisting of the reconversion of the Refinery lands to give them a use linked to the urban, economic and social development of the city.
The objective of the cooperation between both parties is the regeneration of the land, with an approximate surface area of 570,000 square meters, to promote its urban renewal, achieve opening to the sea, increase public provisions and develop new infrastructure, among others.
