The management of the historical complexes of Santa Cruz ran into the new Law of the Cultural Heritage of the Canary Islands, paralyzing the special plans that were still in the drafting phase, specifically those of Los Hoteles-Pino del Oro and the Antiguo Santa Cruz. Its adaptation to the new norm, made one of the drafting teams renounce the contract directly, while the other negotiated until the last minute a price than the one tendered to make this adaptation, but has not reached an agreement with Urbanismo, and its contract also lapses. This is detailed by the councilor for Urban Planning of Santa Cruz, Carlos Tarife, to the question posed by Cs, about the status of the processing of the different special plans that affect the historic complexes.
Thus, the drafting of both documents will have to go out to tender again “in the case of Los Hoteles, an agreement could not be reached since they asked for a price that the Management considered excessive, since it exceeded 10% of the award price , so now we will proceed to terminate the contract and bid again, something that we have already started in parallel to the resolution “.
Once the contract is awarded, the new drafting team will have a period of 8 months from the signing of the contract to prepare and deliver the Strategic Environmental Study, in accordance with the Scope Document issued by the environmental body, as well as the document for initial approval. . The drafting team that comes out of the bidding for the Old Santa Cruz Special Plan will have the same deadline.
Tarife estimates that it will not be until 2023 when an initial approval of both documents can be counted on.
