The San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council has officially begun the administrative process to address one of the longest-standing urban planning issues in its residential area. The Local Governing Board has opened the public consultation and objection period for the modification and completion of the urbanization project for the second phase of the El Hornillo 3A sector. This step submits the complete file to public review for a period of twenty business days, starting the day after the announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province, allowing those affected to register any claims and observations they deem appropriate through the General Registry or the municipal electronic office.
The initiative, processed under planning file 12167/2022, seeks to end a bureaucratic labyrinth that began back in 1988. For nearly forty years, this area of over 307.000 square meters has been plagued by modifications to the construction methods, partial work stoppages, and legal issues that have frozen the neighborhood's development. With the initial approval of this technical update, the city council aims to regularize previously completed infrastructure and precisely define the remaining work needed to deliver a finished development that complies with current accessibility and sustainability regulations.
The bulk of the planned renovation focuses on the environmental and landscape transformation of the area through the development of 46.281 square meters of green spaces. The Department of Urban Planning, headed by Davinia Ramírez, has structured this area into six large landscaped spaces that will combine existing plantings with new species adapted to the climate of southern Gran Canaria. The technical design incorporates the installation of an automated irrigation network that will be supplied exclusively with treated wastewater, pursuing a maintenance model that mitigates water consumption in the municipality.
One point that promises to generate debate during the upcoming weeks of public consultation is the recovery of land that was originally communal property. The project aims to reverse the occupation of public spaces that, after decades of institutional uncertainty, ended up incorporated into the fences and private gardens of neighboring homes. The City Council plans to modify the topography of the land to return these plots to their original use, seeking to guarantee the continuity of pedestrian routes and prevent further appropriation by private individuals.
Underground, the project includes a complete overhaul of the area's essential services. Technical documents, available to residents on the municipal website's notice board, detail the modernization of the drinking water supply, sanitation, stormwater drainage, street lighting, low-voltage power lines, and telecommunications networks. Above ground, the work will be completed with the paving of roads and sidewalks, the improvement of 103 private garage entrances, the construction of retaining walls, and the creation of new parking spaces specifically for people with reduced mobility.
The First Deputy Mayor and head of the Urban Planning Department, Alejandro Marichal, has framed this breakthrough within a broader strategy linked to generating legal certainty and promoting housing in the municipality. The councilman associates the completion of these long-standing files with the possibility of activating residential land suitable for construction, a move that the local administration intends to combine with a public housing investment plan budgeted at over 40 million euros. Although the initial approval does not conclude the process, the public consultation period that now begins constitutes the final filter for the project to gain legal standing and move forward with its final bidding process.
