La Victoria de Acentejo will host the 13th industrial estate on the island. To achieve this, the General Plan of Ordination will need to be modified to create suitable land for this purpose. This was discussed during a meeting between the Industry Councillor of the Tenerife Island Council, Manuel Fernández, and the Mayor of the municipality, Juan Antonio García Abreu.
This meeting is part of the series of discussions that the island’s Industry representative is holding with representatives from all the municipalities of Tenerife, with the aim of increasing inter-administrative collaboration to boost the Insular Programme of Actions in Industrial Estates (Piapi), which has already been joined by more than half of the island’s municipalities.
Manuel Fernández points out that “this programme is designed to improve the infrastructure and facilities of industrial estates in order to attract more investment and tackle the economic diversification process with greater strength.” The island’s Industry Councillor values that “this initiative aims to implement lines of work that allow for the improvement, new creation, renovation, or implementation of additional services in all industrial estates in Tenerife.”
Fernández Vega emphasizes that “this programme and the success of its implementation indicate the need that Tenerife’s municipalities had to develop industrial policies, from which the importance of having invested during this term in creating the Insular Department of Industry, for the first time in the history of the institution, with its own budget, arises.”
Mayor Juan García informed Manuel Fernández that La Victoria de Acentejo does not currently have designated industrial land, but he mentioned that the City Council intends to adapt the General Ordinance Plan (GOP) to facilitate it, “with the aim of consolidating all industrial activity that is currently scattered throughout the municipality onto a single site.”
Regarding this matter, the island’s Industry Councillor revealed that, “once the urban norm is approved, our intention is to collaborate with the City Council, from an economic and financial perspective, for the establishment of an industrial estate in La Victoria.”
Manuel Fernández stressed that “given that this municipality is predominantly agricultural and rural, our intention is to work hand in hand with the local Corporation to contribute to the diversification of the economy in the northern part of the island in general, and in the municipality of La Victoria in particular.”
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Currently, Tenerife has twelve industrial estates: Valle de Güímar, Granadilla, La Campana (El Rosario), Los Majuelos, Las Torres de Taco (La Laguna), El Mayorazgo, Costa Sur-Buenos Aires (Santa Cruz de Tenerife), La Yegua (La Guancha), Llano del Camello, Las Chafiras, Las Andoriñas, and (San Miguel de Abona), as well as San Jerónimo (La Orotava). The development of the El Chorrillo industrial estate, adjacent to La Campana, in the island’s capital is also pending.
