Some 350 people have already visited the pilot flat of The Prickly Pear in the last month and a half, since the possibility of doing so by making an appointment on the website of the La Laguna Municipal Housing and Services Society (Muvisa) was opened on April 3. The residents of the old Las Chumberas buildings have been able to get an idea of what their future homes will be like, and have expressed their opinions and preferences on the different existing typologies.
The development is mostly three-bedroom homes, although there are also four-bedrooms and some are adapted for people with reduced mobility. The pilot house that has been visited is 78 square meters built, with an approximate useful area of 68, while the four-bedroom and accessible ones have 95 square meters built and 80 useful.
There are, in turn, two types of each model, respecting current regulations and technical prescriptions, which requires, for example, having two bathrooms from when they have three bedrooms and complying with certain spaces that guarantee habitability and mobility.
This means that, apart from the fact that all new homes have a larger useful and constructed area than the original ones, there are two different types. For this reason, Muvisa has decided to temporarily suspend visits to the show flat and call on the entire neighborhood, block by block, to try to make a prior choice and try to organize, as far as possible, the draw between the groups that prefer each typology.
Thus, throughout the next week, and in the new office that Muvisa has at number 3 Calle Alcalde Alonso Suárez Melián, next to the old Plaza de los Patos de la Catedral, the owners of the blocks of the first phase of the development in the following order. Tomorrow, at 5:00 p.m., Block 1, and at 7:00 p.m., Block 2; next Tuesday, at 5:00 p.m., Block 3, and at 7:00 p.m., Block 4; on Wednesday, at 5:00 p.m., Block 5, and at 7:00 p.m., Block 8; on Thursday, at 5:00 p.m., Block 15, and at 7:00 p.m., Block 16; and on Friday, May 19, at 5:00 p.m., Block 33, and at 7:00 p.m., Block 42.
Given the capacity conditions, Muvisa has requested the attendance of one person per household, and the meetings will allow information to be collected in order to order a draw that will be public and before a notary and will be held, in any case, after the summer.
specific situations
In addition, the neighbors who are owners will be informed about the procedures that must be followed with the charges (mortgages or embargoes) in force, expired and expired; the specific situations of properties with multiple heirs and the options to request a garage, which, unlike the storage room, is not included in the home. All the houses are exterior and have ventilation systems that renew the air, photovoltaic panels connected to tanks in each house, so that hot water will be produced with renewable energy, as explained by Muvisa.
In addition, the buildings will have the façade covered with an exterior insulation system that helps maintain the temperature with the consequent energy savings.
