Vice President Augusto Hidalgo meets with Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez to promote several home rehabilitation actions in El Pajar, San Fernando or Castillo del Romeral
The Department of Public Works and Infrastructure, Architecture and Housing of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, headed by Augusto Hidalgo, plans actions in the areas within its competence worth more than 5,3 million euros in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana , where another 1,3 million have already been invested in improving several roads. These investments will materialize in the rehabilitation of housing, road improvements and beautification of the roads that cross the municipality, according to what the island vice president informed the mayor of the municipality, Marco Aurelio Pérez, within the framework of the coordination meeting held today at the request of the Island counseling.
“It must be said that between housing and road policies, we are talking about the fact that at this moment 6,6 million euros are being invested in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana alone, of which 1,6 have been executed in recent months. 6,6 approximately," said Hidalgo, "in short, our idea is to continue collaborating with this city council, not only investing those XNUMX million euros in the coming months, but also increasing these amounts with the proposals that the City Council makes to us both "improvement of roads as well as improvement and rehabilitation of housing with some type of protection in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana."
The insular vice president and the mayor, together with the first deputy mayor, Alejandro Marichal, and the councilors Lucía Jiménez and Araceli Armas, reviewed the actions planned in the municipality of the South that in terms of housing materialize in six rehabilitation projects already in progress. March. These are rehabilitation interventions (the former ARRU) carried out in collaboration with the Government of the Canary Islands and in which the Cabildo participates through the Gran Canaria Housing Consortium, which contributes 2,2 million euros to these works. These rehabilitation works will be carried out in a total of 553 homes located in neighborhoods such as San Fernando, El Pajar, Castillo del Romeral or Cercados de Espino.
Furthermore, in recent months the Consortium has been awarded basic aid for household expenses of vulnerable families, and to subsidize accessibility works for another 388.000 euros.
For its part, the City Council requested the Vice Presidency of the Cabildo to participate in a new rehabilitation action in Programmed Rehabilitation Residential Environments (ERRP), which replaces the old ARRU, to be carried out in the La Paz urbanization, in San Fernando. As Marichal explained, the Government of the Canary Islands has already committed to contributing funds to this ERRP of 132 homes and the island Consortium is now evaluating the contribution that the Cabildo will make to it.
“I have told the mayor and his Corporation that from the Cabildo we intend to collaborate in the contribution that the City Council must make to the rehabilitation projects that the Government of the Canary Islands accepts,” said Hidalgo, “our idea is that in all city councils that have the capacity to join projects financed by Europe and the Ministry through the Government of the Canary Islands, join these types of projects and collaborate to reduce the contribution that the town councils have to make and do it ourselves from the Cabildo, we are going to be a financier of this type of actions. This is what we talked about with the Government of the Canary Islands and this should be our role, since it is something that is not done in the rest of the islands, everything must be said, but here we have a consortium with that objective and we must have the ability to collaborate in promoting any protected housing action.”
In this sense, the first deputy mayor asked Hidalgo for two other issues regarding Housing, “financing to provide subsidies for the improvement of facades of the existing housing stock, as well as accessibility aid for blocks of buildings, given that San Bartolomé de Tirajana has a very old housing stock and it is necessary to undertake improvements in accessibility, such as the installation of elevators,” concluded Marichal.
For his part, the mayor of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, Marco Aurelio Pérez, highlighted that this meeting “has served to be able to have short, medium and long-term planning with the island institution, and agree on a work scheme that benefits the municipality. improving their infrastructure.”
Routes
In terms of roads, Augusto Hidalgo recalled that his department has already invested just over 1,3 million euros in various maintenance and rehabilitation actions on several roads. Thus, one million euros were used to pave 16,5 kilometers of the GC-1 between Arguineguín and Pasito Blanco, and on the Fataga highway (GC-60). While the arrangement of walls and conditioning of slopes of the GC-60 at the height of the Negro ravine involved another investment of 350.000 euros.
In the portfolio of upcoming road projects, Augusto Hidalgo highlighted the restoration, slope conditioning and beautification project of the GC-1 at the height of the Cañizo ravine, near El Veril, an action that is already in bidding. for 1,3 million. In addition to repairing slopes, walls and drainage, this project will beautify the entire environment surrounding the highway by creating new green areas on the edges of the highway to, in this way, offer a better image to those who visit the municipality. tourist by road.
Another notable action is located on the GC-60, near Arteara, where the road will be widened in a curve area where in recent years several accidents have occurred due to its narrowness and lack of visibility. In addition, they are drafting the projects to condition and improve several sections of the Cumbre area of the municipality of San Bartolomé, specifically on the GC-604 and the GC-654.
Finally, in terms of resurfacing the municipality's roads, in the coming months the Vice Presidency of the Cabildo will intervene in the GC-60 and the GC-655 (Hoya de Tunte) where another 12,5 kilometers of roads will be paved with an investment of one million euros.
