The mayor of Yaiza, Óscar Noda, carried out this Monday in the municipal Plenary a detailed review of the Playa Blanca Sports Pavilion project, from the signing of the contract for its execution in October 2019 until the end of last March. It was precisely this month when the City Council received the descriptive technical report commissioned from an expert architect, a document that will allow to put out to tender both the pending works left unexecuted by the contractor Levantina Ingeniería y Construcción S.L., as well as new improvement actions incorporated by the local Administration.
The company entered into insolvency proceedings in the summer of 2024, which forced the City Council to terminate the contract in September and to retake control of the project. According to Noda, “we have completed all the legal and technical processing to tender in the middle of the year the culmination of the project with own investment and claim in the courts against those responsible for the delay of the work”.
The degree of execution of the pavilion stands at around 95%, although the forecast of additional works —focused mainly on equipment and aesthetic aspects— leaves approximately 20% still to be executed. To date, the infrastructure has involved an investment of 8 million euros, and it is estimated that, with the pending actions, the total cost will reach 11 million.
“The sports schools and our athletes need the pavilion, so we will make the missing investment effort to deliver it for their use and enjoyment,” added the mayor.
Among the most relevant works that remained unfinished are the tests of the three swimming pools and the commissioning of the ventilation and air conditioning system of the entire facility. Noda acknowledged the citizen concern for the delay of a project “so demanded,” although he defended that the City Council has acted according to the established procedures: “We had to scrupulously comply with all technical and legal steps that have allowed us to terminate the contract, recover the project, assess its state through an expert appraisal and now proceed to tender its completion.”
The mayor also stressed that the governing group has continuously informed both the citizenry and the political parties. In this regard, he recalled that his appearance in the Plenary was requested by two of the four opposition groups, Coalición Canaria and Partido Popular, where he chronologically presented the actions carried out and the key dates of the process.