The Deputy Minister of Territorial Planning and Demographic Challenge of the Government of the Canary Islands, Elena Zárate Altamirano, has signed this February simplified strategic environmental evaluation of the General Planning Plan of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, in Plot H, Hotel Golf, of the Golf Course Partial Plan , that is, Lopesan's interests in Meloneras, as indicated by business sources to Maspalomas24H on Tuesday.
This legal provision is added to other processes such as those already carried out with plots 23 HB PP Meloneras Golf, Plot 18 HB PP Meloneras Golf, 22-HB, 2-B, 16-HB and since January 2024 the report strategic environmental minor modification of the PGO of San Bartolomé de Tirajana. Plot N Playa del Inglés. Within a period of 45 business days it will be known what allegations there are against it. It is to be expected that there will be a number of business groups fighting with the promoters in court.
The document states that "the minor modification of the general urban planning of San Bartolomé de Tirajana in the area where Parcel H is located arises from the obligation to execute Sentence No. 150/2012, of October 17, of the TSJC ( contentious-administrative appeal No. 15/2011) …” and that, therefore, “the margin of discretion of this Minor Modification is considerably reduced, to the point of limiting the alteration of the current planning.”
With this, there is de facto "a reclassification of Plot H towards rustic land, as well as its legal regime." In September 2023, the Urban Planning Councilor of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council, Alejandro Marichal (CC), said that with this measure "the procedures begin so that throughout this mandate the modification of the PGO is definitively approved, which will entail an investment of more than 700 million euros" and maintained "that during the construction of the hotels, which will have more than 1.800 rooms, 1.500 jobs will be generated and that, once completed, they will have 900 direct and 3.500 indirect employees" .
By way of context, in 2016 it was learned that plot H-2 where the Villa del Conde hotel is located could be developed jointly with plot B-5.2, with bungalows, preserving the buildability resulting from both plots, which It did not appear in the 1996 PGOU and was slowing down the development of new hotels. "The free space between both plots, which was what blocked the project, is located in the adjacent green area with a larger surface area. In addition, it removes three other kiosks planned in 1996," Canarias7 reported at the time.
