The Council of Government of the Canary Islandsat the proposal of the Minister of Public Works, Transport and Housing, Sebastián Franquis, has approved this Thursday the authorization of the expenditure of €8,231,979 to initiate the recruitment of construction works for 65 new subsidized homes, included in the Housing Plan of Canary Islands 2020-2025, in the San Antonio neighborhood, in the municipality of La Orotava. After yesterday’s authorization, it is estimated that the tender for the works “may be published on the contracting platform next May.”
This new development is part of the objectives of the construction program of the Housing Plan and adds to the other three works that are already underway to build 124 new subsidized homes on the islands, to which another promotion of 134 more homes will be added in the coming months on the island of Lanzarote, according to the regional department.
ceded plot
The new homes in the San Antonio I development, in the homonymous neighborhood of La Orotava, will be built on a plot ceded to the Canary Islands Housing Institute (ICAVI), intended for the construction of two developments of 65 subsidized public housing, one of which it was already completed and delivered to housing applicants in 2015. The plot that will house this new promotion has an area of 3,393 square meters and is located in the area known as Barbuzano.
The works, of the Housing Plan of the Canary Islands, are expected to be put out to tender next May
The San Antonio I promotion will be distributed in two four-story residential buildings, organized in two portals each, with independent stairs and elevators. The houses will be divided into four floors above the street level, a garage floor in the semi-basement and a semi-basement floor for a storage room.
The first phase was delivered in 2015 and the second will be carried out on a plot of 3,393 meters
These new subsidized homes will have from one to four bedrooms and two homes reserved for people with reduced mobility (PRM) are projected on the ground floor and a home reserved for a supervised apartment is the home made up of five bedrooms.
Each building will have a fire-fighting water tank, as well as two water tanks for internal supply, one for each portal, with their corresponding hydrocompressors. An adapted itinerary is also projected to the homes reserved for PRM from each garage floor through the elevator.
almost a million more
The base budget for bidding for the works amounts to €7,483,617but almost a million more euros are reserved to liquidate the works when they are finished and to deal with possible unforeseen events in the development of the works or in the bidding process.
The La Orotava City Council has been demanding the construction of these homes for more than eight years, when the first phase of this project was delivered to enable a total of 130 subsidized homes in the San Antonio neighborhood. The works are carried out in the area where the old prefabricated houses were located, which were demolished due to their poor condition, and whose inhabitants relocated to other social housing in the municipality years ago.
The first phase of these works, the 65 homes that are already built, involved a total investment of 4.4 million euros, between 2012 and 2014. Now that budget has almost doubled, to 8.2 million euros, and aspires to help reduce the large pool of applicants for subsidized housing in La Orotava, which is around 500 people.
