The San Bartolomé City Council has definitively approved its Supplementary General Planning Plan for San Bartolomé, after receiving the green light and favorable report this Tuesday, December 30, from the Unique Reporting Commission of the Department of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion, and Water of the Government of the Canary Islands.
With this approval a long-awaited process is concluded that will provide the municipality with a key tool for its urban development. San Bartolomé had been working until now with subsidiary regulations from 1996, a clearly obsolete framework that, almost thirty years later, will be replaced by planning fully adapted to current legislation.
The progress of the Plan was presented to the public in 2019 and, six years later, the document is definitively approved. Last October, the San Bartolomé City Council received the last pending report from the Ministry of Defense to proceed with the final approval phase by the Government of the Canary Islands, which culminated this Wednesday during the celebration of the Unique Information Commission.
The mayor, Isidro Pérez Martín, has emphasized that "the approval of the General Planning Plan has been an absolute priority for this government team. Now we have the green light to launch one of the most ambitious projects of this term and one of the vital tools for the future of San Bartolomé, as it provides legal certainty, speeds up the processing of licenses, and, above all, directly improves the quality of life for our residents".
In this regard, Pérez highlighted that the new document **will allow for the unblocking of actions that until now could not be carried out**. "There will be streets that can be paved because they will already be included in the planning and unfair situations inherited from the old subsidiary regulations, which had left homes out of compliance due to alignment issues, will be corrected."
The Councilor for Urban Planning, Marlene Romero, highlighted the technical and political work carried out to finalize the document. “This Zoning Plan is the result of years of rigorous and coordinated work. It not only updates the municipal urban planning framework but also provides concrete solutions to real problems. For example, it will be able to solve problems detected in Montaña Blanca and Güime, to asphalt some of their streets, and in Playa Honda it will allow us to enable parking areas, in spaces that may be subject to expropriation to try to alleviate a problem that we know concerns and affects the daily lives of many people,” she explains.
Likewise, the San Bartolomé City Council thanks the Director General of Territorial Planning and Territorial Cohesion of the Government of the Canary Islands, Onán Cruz Díaz, as well as the Minister of Territorial Policy, Territorial Cohesion and Water, Manuel Miranda, for their involvement, collaboration, and willingness to make the culmination of this long administrative process possible.
With this document, the San Bartolomé City Council begins a historic stage in territorial and urban planning, equipping itself with a modern, effective tool designed for orderly and sustainable growth of the municipality.
