The present information is a summary of what is contained in articles 123 and following of Law 4/2017, on land and protected natural spaces in the Canary Islands:

What is it about:

It is the planning instrument that orders and designs, for immediate execution, or that executes, general systems, endowments and structuring equipment or for industrial, energy, non-accommodation tourist, cultural, sports, health or similar activities of a strategic nature, when it comes to meeting unexpected needs or urgent actions.

Prerequisites:

Projects authorised under this instrument must be of island interest and must serve a strategic interest to be demonstrated during the procedure.

On which land they can be authorised:

They can be carried out on any type of land regardless of its classification and urban qualification although they can only be implemented in rustic lands of Environmental Protection and Agricultural Protection when they are of public initiative. Moreover, in this case they can only be approved when there is no viable alternative on another land and the functionality of the work so requires.

Who can promote them:

Projects of Island Interest can be promoted by public or private initiative with the exception of those that affect rustic lands of Environmental Protection and Agricultural Protection that can only be of public initiative.

Procedure:

• Unless the promoter is the Island Corporation itself, the procedure begins with the presentation of the application to the Island Council in the corresponding registry. The application must be accompanied by the legally established documentation.
• Resolution on the island interest of the project within 3 months, understood to be rejected by administrative silence. In the case of a private initiative, it is also required a report from the municipalities on whose land the project is to be developed.
• Instruction:
  • Public information and hearing to landowners during the period of 1 month.
  • Report of the Island Administration and of the affected municipalities.
• Approval of the Project by the Plenary of the Island Council or, where appropriate, submission of the file to the Government of the Canary Islands for final approval when the affected municipalities express disagreement with the project.

Unless the initiative corresponds to the Island Council, the project shall be considered rejected for the course of a period of 6 months without resolution from the notification to the promoter of the concurrence of island interest.

Contact and Information

• Address: Plaza del Cabildo, s/n
  38001, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
• Telephone: 901 501 901
• E-mail: 901501901@tenerife.es