ERDF FUNDS 2014-2020
RELATED ACTIONS
The efforts made through the ERDF funds are one of the most significant aspects of a firm strategy to promote sustainable and integrated urban development in the neighbourhoods of the Cono Sur area and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria as a whole. The lines of action and operations of this project are added to those of other stages of urban planning and regeneration by the City Council, the Gran Canaria Island Council (Cabildo de Gran Canaria) and the financial support of the Canary Islands and the Spanish Government.
This way, synergies arise, and positive effects multiply, leading to a dignified, competitive, healthy, inclusive urban space with excellent environmental quality. These qualities, in turn, result in population well-being, quality of life, economic, service and cultural expectations, and identification with the environment, reducing urban vulnerability factors to a minimum.
This section includes actions that were developed recently, actions that are currently underway and actions that are planned in the short term. It also presents actions that provide an ideal space for sustainable mobility and the definition of low emission zones, building rehabilitation and collective facilities or services. Other actions are aimed at natural regeneration or landscape rehabilitation of public spaces, slopes and the coastal area, the rehabilitation and enhancement of cultural heritage, etc. In short, these are types of objectives that complement the ISUDS Lines of Action.
Some relevant examples are:
This project is carried out by the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and is financed by state, regional and island funds. It is being carried out in different annual stages due to its wide territorial extension, the number of buildings and houses (3,855), and their deterioration.
With this action, work is being carried out to recover the structural elements of the buildings, as well as accessibility, the adaptation of common elements and the liveability of the dwellings. This tackles one of the fundamental factors of urban vulnerability of some 10,000 residents, including the improvement of open spaces, sports facilities, green spaces, and car parks.
This project aims to become the core element of the sustainable mobility model of the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Its route covers the whole of the lower part of the city, and one of its most important sections passes through the districts of the Cono Sur area influenced by the ISUDS.
Its role in urban public transport and the new mobility model will have a great impact on Las Palmas de Gran Canaria; the beginning of the operational coincides with the final stage of the Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy.
Linked to the MetroGuagua (Bus Rapid Transit - BRT) system, this station will be a public facility that will serve as the starting or end point of the MetroGuagua route.
The station combines its functional innovation element as a transport hub with that of a landmark and a reference point for the image of the Cono Sur area, thus improving its attractiveness. Likewise, it will enhance the tourist potential of the neighbourhoods and also serve as a meeting point.
This action focuses on one of the city’s most picturesque traditional neighbourhoods, located on a cliff. The participation process called ‘Barrios pendientes’ has been used to define this strategy and establish the guidelines for the regeneration of the neighbourhood.
In this sense, special emphasis is placed on the rehabilitation of the residential area, the programming of a range of facilities to reduce the residents’ vulnerability, the enhancement of the landscape and cultural heritage and a firm solution to the mobility and accessibility issues.
This rehabilitation project for the Tres Palmas neighbourhood includes a group of 10 blocks and a civic centre. It is being carried out jointly with the Gran Canaria Island Council (Cabildo de Gran Canaria). The project is part of the Gran Canaria Island Socio-Economic Development Programme (FDCAN) 2016-2019.
This action upgrades the buildings by solving structural, environmental and functional degradation issues, ending one of the problems that most affected the quality of the everyday environment of some 500 families.
This action includes the improvement of public lighting energy efficiency in the neighbourhoods of San José and San Cristóbal, both in the Cono Sur area, to achieve the energy transition of the urban space and the public services.
This project will be extended to the rest of the Cono Sur neighbourhoods thanks to ERDF funds.
In the Cono Sur area, we can find several actions promoted by the Municipal Sports Institute of the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria within a basic strategy to improve and increase the number of public sports facilities in the municipality.
The Local Administration believes that improving the population’s quality of life and well-being go hand in hand with offering a healthy and attractive municipal space of environmental excellence to consolidate sport as a daily activity and healthy habits.
