The Ministry of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands, at the head of which is Jose Antonio Valbuena, published yesterday the environmental evaluation of the construction project of the future City of Justice. Thus, the BOC stated that, for 45 days, arguments may be submitted to a project that aims to centralize all judicial services in the area with the construction of a new Palace of Justice and incorporating the rest of the available plots to weave a network that allows turn the area into the nerve center of the administration of justice in the capital.
In this network of plots and buildings, the Government of the Canary Islands will have to take over the ownership of land that belongs to other administrations, such as that of the Santa Cruz City Council. Among them is the one for hotel or tourist use that the City Council owns and that, according to the project on public display, the Government is studying to acquire with the aim of transferring the Ministry of Healthcurrently on the Rambla de Santa Cruz, so that the entire administrative network of the Government of the Canary Islands in Tenerife is concentrated in Cabo Llanos.
This hotel plot was also considered as a possible location for the Multipurpose Building III, which is intended to be built with the aim of closing Multiples I, which is located on Anaga Avenue. In any case, it would be necessary to modify the uses of this plot once it was acquired by the Government of the Canary Islands.
In this planning detail, the acquisition of the Auditorium building that Antonio Plasencia built in the area and that he delivered to the Santa Cruz City Council in payment for the civil liability of the Teresitas Case is also being studied. The purpose of this building will be to complete the framework of judicial headquarters.
The document admits that the centrality of services that is intended to be created in Cabo Llanos will generate mobility problems, for which the possibility included in the Territorial Plan for the Planning of the Road System of the Metropolitan Area would be activated, consisting of the burying of the Vía Litoral: “In this way, the problems of the area are significantly reduced and progress is made in improving the functioning of this infrastructure at a higher level.”
The planning proposal with respect to the current planning will suppose a variation in the current buildability, although it does increase the free spaces by more than 30,000 square meters, decrease the surface of the road by almost 35,000 square meters and reduce the lucrative use to zero.
After this process of environmental evaluation of the proposal and the publication of the report on the strategic environmental impact, the proposal to suspend the planning instrument of the General Plan for Santa Cruz de Tenerife in the area of Cabo Llanos will be launched, which will be accompanied by the corresponding Transitory Substantive Norms.
