Alejandro Marichal: “We have opened the way to begin the urban planning of this area of El Tablero, freeing up land and starting the construction of future housing.”
Davinia Ramírez: “This process will mark the turning point in transforming a historical problem into a development opportunity for El Tablero.”
The Urban Planning Department of the San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council will present the file corresponding to the Urban Environment Action Program (PAMU) to the Plenary Session tomorrow. This program, established under Canary Islands legislation, is designed to regenerate degraded urban areas, complete unfinished housing developments, and definitively regulate areas awaiting development. This step will activate the crucial process for unblocking the T-1 sector of El Tablero, an area that has been stalled for over three decades. With the submission of the Technical Report, which recommends initiating the Simplified Strategic Environmental Assessment, the municipality is moving towards the definitive planning of the area, the reactivation of housing construction, and the urban planning and land registry regularization of the affected property owners.
Sector T-1 covers a total area of 74.813 square meters. Of this, 24.426 m² are designated for residential use, allowing for the future development of new housing. The area also includes 7.623 m² of open space, 2.686 m² for sports facilities, 2.390 m² for social amenities, 19.897 m² for educational facilities, and 25.789 m² dedicated to the road network. The Urban Development Plan (PAMU) will resolve the urban planning and land registry status of 145 property owners.
The report, which will be submitted for plenary consideration tomorrow, certifies that the documentation presented by the drafting team meets the legal requirements for initiating the environmental assessment process. It also details the problems that have accumulated over the years in the area, such as the degradation of the urban fabric, the contradictions between current regulations and what has actually been implemented, the existence of non-compliant facilities, and the impossibility of completing the urbanization or registering the plots.
To address this situation, the Urban Development Program proposes a modification of the municipality's General Plan and the delimitation of an Urban Renewal and Reform Project, with the aim of completing the urbanization, legitimizing existing buildings, and promoting residential development. After analyzing three planning alternatives, the document concludes that Alternative 2 is the only viable option from an environmental, economic, and technical standpoint, as it respects existing infrastructure, adapts the planning to the realities of the area, and avoids additional costs that could jeopardize the project's viability.
The First Deputy Mayor, Alejandro Marichal, emphasizes that bringing the matter before the full council “is a key step toward definitively resolving a situation that residents have been waiting for for thirty years.” According to Marichal, formally initiating the environmental assessment “paves the way for the urban planning of this area of El Tablero, freeing up land and allowing the construction of future housing to begin.”
For her part, the Councilor for Urban Planning, Davinia Ramírez, emphasizes that the Department “has worked to guarantee the continuity of the process and that the T-1 area has a solid and viable urban regeneration plan.” She adds that the proceedings, which will reach the Plenary Session tomorrow, “will mark the turning point in transforming a long-standing problem into a development opportunity for El Tablero.”
With this administrative step, the Department of Urban Planning reaffirms its commitment to orderly and responsible planning, aimed at responding to the demand for housing, improving the municipality's facilities and recovering a space whose transformation has been demanded for decades.
Background of the case
The process to advance the T-1 solution has intensified in the last year with a series of key administrative milestones that have allowed for the reactivation of an area that had been stalled since the 1990s. In May 2025, the contract was awarded to draft the Urban Environment Action Program, a task aimed at developing the technical planning proposal and addressing the sector's long-standing shortcomings. During the summer of 2025, the urban planning process was formally initiated, allowing progress to be made and the preparation of the Strategic Environmental Assessment and the draft of the Urban Environment Action Program to be coordinated.
In September, all the technical documentation required to initiate the environmental permitting process was submitted to the Municipal Registry, an essential step for the City Council to issue the Technical Report now being submitted to the Plenary Session. This report, dated October 29, confirms that the proposal complies with the requirements of state and regional environmental legislation and meets the necessary conditions to initiate the Simplified Strategic Environmental Assessment. Submitting the file to tomorrow's plenary session is therefore the next logical step in a process that, after thirty years of stagnation, seeks to provide the T-1 sector of El Tablero with a suitable, viable plan capable of meeting the municipality's current needs.
