A new 5-storey underground car park scheduled to be built on the last ‘green area’ of San Eugenio in Adeje, in the south of Tenerife, is not going ahead after council sources revealed that the licence for the construction has expired and the area will be returned to being a park for all to use, not just cars.
Local residents were in uproar when hoardings went up around the park last year, with a sign informing of the new project to build an underground parking facility for Puerto Colon, and protested against it urging the Adeje Council to look into it further claiming another car park isn’t needed but the green area is, and it seems that the council listened and people power prevailed, at least for now.
According to the same sources, the company behind the project, Parking Puerto Colon SL, have been given ten days to remove the hoardings from the site or the council will do so themselves, so a municipal gardening team can access it to return the area back to its former glory for public use.
This comes as great news for the community of the area around Puerto Colón, who formed a petition and collected signatures to protest against the destruction of the green park on Avenida Colon, the road which leads down from the San Eugenio roundabout to Puerto Colón, who will be delighted about the news.
This is the second time in 15 years that residents grouped together against the construction of an underground car park on this site, and the second time that a licence had been granted without asking or informing locals about it first.
At this stage, it is not known whether an extension or a new licence will be issued for a 496-space parking area, but with four other car parks nearby, a definitive lack of local support because it is the only park of its kind left in the area, and open file which meant objections from the local council (who hadn’t granted the final permission for the project), it seems unlikely, in the short to medium term anyway.
