The delegate of the Government in Cantabria, Eugenia Gómez de Diego, received today in her office the mayor of Santander, Gema Igual,with whom she has held a working meeting for approximately an hour in which they have addressed projects of interest to the city in which both the City Council and the Government of Spain participate.
After the meeting, in statements to the media, Gómez de Diego highlighted the important contribution and the crucial role of the Government of Spain in the city’s “transformative” projectors, such as its positioning as a cultural reference at national and international level with the contribution of “more than 50 million euros” or railway integration, which entails a valuable release of land for the use and enjoyment of the Santanderinos.
On this last project, the delegate said that “this will be the legislature in which the railway reorganization will begin in a tangible, real way”.
“I am convinced that, after so many years of talking about this ambitious project, it will be with the government of Pedro Sánchez that it really begins to materialize and we stop seeing infographics to see machines working,” she said.
The Ministry of Transport has also advanced the project of humanization of the national roads 623 and 611 as it passes through Santander, which “will soon go to public exhibition”, will involve a significant investment and will incorporate bike and tree lanes from Jerónimo Sáinz de la Maza y Cajo to the exit of the municipal area on May Day and Ojáiz.
Likewise, it has highlighted other projects financed by the Government of Spain such as the “millionaire investments” in the Port of Santander to boost the economy, the gratuitousness of the Urban Transport of Santander (TUS) or the substantial aid for rehabilitation from which thousands of Santanderinos are benefiting, even from entire neighborhoods such as the Casa de Renfe or the Barrio Obrero.
After stressing that “the Delegation is open to all”, Gómez de Diego welcomed this first meeting with the mayor of the Cantabrian capital, “the constructive tone and institutional loyalty”. “I believe that from dialogue and collaboration it is easier for projects to move forward,” said Gómez de Diego, who has agreed with the municipal councilor to hold regular meetings to follow up on the issues addressed.
Spikes
Another of the issues that both authorities have analyzed has to do with the Santander sandals. In this regard, Gómez de Diego pointed out that the dam for the stabilization of Los Danger-Magdalena Beach is currently processing the environmental impact statement to remove the badge that had been built, which is what the City of Santander had demanded in the last legislature.
“Now, the City Council has changed its criteria and has asked for the work to be resumed to build the second dam,” said the delegate, who has committed to transfer this change of position to the Ministry and seek a definitive solution, as well as to know in more detail the status of the project to stabilize the Second Sardinero Beach, which is also being processed to obtain the positive environmental impact statement.
Heritage
Gómez de Diego and Igualó have also addressed several initiatives related to heritage owned by the Government of Spain, such as the La Remonta estate, the Cortiguera Palace or the buildings of Rema and La Horadada.
Gómez de Diego has advocated that those buildings and public spaces that are in a position to do so “have use, have life”, although he has specified that “the City Council has to do its part”. During the period of the previous Government of Spain, under the presidency of the PP, there were also those free assignments requested by the Consistory, as is the case of the Cortiguera Palace, which, as the councilor recalled, has been pending “since 2010”.
On the La Remonta estate, Gómez de Diego recalled that the Government of Spain is promoting at a national level the construction of protected public housing on land owned by Defensa, a possibility that the Consistory has rejected despite the fact that the General Urban Planning Plan (PGOU) itself includes urban development in a part of that large public space compatible with the adequacy of a green area.
Finally, he has highlighted the desire for dialogue and collaboration with the City Council and other institutions, both of the Delegation and of the Government of Spain, which has just completed a hundred days of mandate.