The Popular Party (PP) in the Arrecife City Council has achieved, with the unanimous support of all political forces, that the capital Consistory "promote a project to restore and recover in a faithful and rigorous manner the Molino de Cabo Pedro." The motion presented by the populars, which will be carried out in collaboration with the Island Council, has been approved this Tuesday in the plenary session of the City Council.
According to Councilor Angela Hernández, "the first steps to be taken by the institutions will be to reach an agreement with the owners since the mill, which has a protection status, is privately owned, with the site being considered a green area within the urban planning regulations of the capital."
The populars have defended during the debate "the importance of this mill within the history of Arrecife, whose functionality was linked to the trade of the barrilla." "Built in the mid-eighteenth century, today it is completely dilapidated as only the cylindrical construction and some tables remain standing," they pointed out.
For the populars, the Molino de Cabo Pedro, the one in El Morro, "is one of the clearest and most evident examples of how the neglect of the institutions ends up annihilating the scarce samples of the Historical Heritage that the city of Arrecife has." "Currently, the image it presents is deplorable, completely abandoned, walled up and being the object of graffiti," Hernández denounced.
The PP's motion also includes the "elaboration of a project to turn the mill into a didactic resource to disseminate the history of Arrecife," they said from the formation.
