The Government of the Canary Islands has agreed to the temporary suspension of the General Planning Plan (PGO) of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the area of Cabo Llanos, to implement the city of Justice, reported this Wednesday the Ministry of Ecological Transition, Fight against Climate Change and Territorial planning.
The agreement is from the regional environmental commission and has been published this Wednesday in the Official Gazette of the Canary Islands, indicated in a statement explaining that it is an exceptional procedure for the suspension of planning and the establishment of transitory substantive standards, which is processed at the request of the Ministry of Public Administrations, Justice and Security.
The regional councilor responsible for the Territorial Planning Department, José Antonio Valbuena, has stressed the importance of this “milestone for this ambitious project to go ahead and allow coverage for judicial use concentrated territorially in Cabo Llanos.”
Although it is concentrated in Cabo Llanos, it is “distributed differently according to the different judicial bodies and complementary uses to house.”
The Strategic Environmental Document that has been made official in the BOC includes general information on the project such as its location and geographic description, objectives of the transitory substantive regulations, scope of the object of suspension, and other more specific aspects.
Among these more specific aspects are the foreseeable effects on the territorial and sectoral plans, the proposed environmental measures, the vulnerability analysis and other proposals foreseen to carry out environmental monitoring of this initiative.
Among other measures, it is proposed to carry out a calculation of the carbon footprint of the planned new actions and buildings, taking into account the data and projections known for the Canary Islands, and include the forecast of shaded spaces throughout the area (even in the itineraries pedestrian) to minimize the effects of heat in the intended area.
It also reflects that the scope of the substantive regulations is located outside protected areas and that this environment is highly anthropized and urbanized, so there are no relevant natural resources or species classified as vulnerable or threatened.
This procedure becomes official after having carried out the mandatory consultations with all the administrations involved, such as the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council, the Tenerife Council, all the departments of the Government of the Canary Islands or the Ministries of Defense, Economic Affairs or Ecological Transition. and Demographic Challenge, is added in the statement.
