The mayor of La Guancha, Antonio Hernandez (PP)regrets the abandonment of Santo Domingo beach and calls for political consensus to finally find a solution to a closure due to the risk of landslides that lasts more than 13 years. Consider that the Council of Tenerife and Coasts “they have left the city council alone” to face this complicated problem, regrets that there is still no definitive project on the table and demands firm financial support from the Cabildo so that “The Consistory can assume the leadership in the search before Costas for the definitive solution”.
Hernández asks all parties with representation in the Cabildo de Tenerife and in its town hall that they “stop being political about this issue” and “work together to find a way to reopen the beach for everyone to enjoy.” he regrets that “some only talk about this beach before the elections”sees the latest proposal of the Canary Islands Coalition in the Island Council as “opportunistic” and wonders “why didn’t CC ask for a performance three years ago and does it now, a month before the elections?”.
Antonio Hernandez remember that it is usual that before each appointment with the polls, the beach of Santo Domingo is talked about again: «It already happened in March 2015, in March 2019 and now it is repeated in April 2023, just a few weeks before of other municipal, insular and regional elections», stresses with fear that this serious problem for the municipality will disappear from the political agenda after May 28.
“They have ignored us”
With just 5,561 inhabitants and a budget of 6.4 million euros in 2022It is very difficult for La Guancha to assume the works alone to secure the slopes of this beach, as the consistories of Realejos and La Orotava on the beaches of El Socorro and El Bollullo, respectively. For Hernández, the lack of foreign support is the key that explains the delay: «We have seen ourselves alone, they have ignored us and that is why we now oppose the Cabildo going to lead that hypothetical solution. Why don’t all the parties go to speak with Costas so that a definitive solution can be drafted? Let’s not use this politically. He La Guancha Town Hall It must lead this process, with the financial support of the Cabildo de Tenerife, because it hurts us to see that the beach is still closed after so long.
The guancho leader criticizes that “some only talk about this beach before the elections”
The president recalls that in this 2019-2023 mandate “the insular area of Tourism commissioned a technical report from a specialized company that indicates that the last project that remained from the stage of Carlos Alonsointroduced in 2019, does not guarantee safety in the area». According to Hernandez, “Currently there is no project in Costas nor is there any drafted to be able to execute it immediately”. The four alternatives that this specialized company has raised in that report have costs ranging between 800,000 and 1.3 million euros, and still have to be developed into an execution project. Some amounts that the northern Consistory could not assume alone.
The latest technical report estimates the total cost of the works between 800,000 euros and 1.3 million
He CC-PNC Nationalist Group in the Cabildo will defend before the tourism commission that “the path started in favor of the recovery of Santo Domingo beach be resumed, urging the competent administrations to issue the corresponding report of costs and, at the same time, lead the project from the Cabildo de Tenerife next to the Town Hall of La Guancha and their neighbors.” An initiative that the mayor rejects because he understands that this leadership must be located in the affected municipality itself“which has already shown that with adequate financial support it has plenty of capacity to solve the problems it suffers.”
