A park for Ctra. de Chile and Dr. Chiscano

What we ask the city council

1
A park with a playground on the abandoned plot next to the golf course and on a strip of the municipal course along Calle Dr. Alfonso Chiscano Díaz. 6% of the course would be enough.
2
Open and free, with direct entrances from Carretera de Chile and Calle Dr. Alfonso Chiscano Díaz.
3
Truly public: the course is municipal, but today only people who pay to play golf can get in. A park is for everyone, and free.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a UNICEF Child Friendly City (Ciudad Amiga de la Infancia). We want our neighbourhood to be one too.

Right here, next to our homes

In orange, the 26 buildings on Carretera de Chile and Calle Dr. Alfonso Chiscano Díaz that are furthest from a public park. In green, what we ask to turn into a park: the abandoned plot (A) and a strip of the golf course (B). Dashed outlines: new buildings, finished or under construction, not yet in the Catastro.

One plot and a small strip change everything

We measured the walking distance, street by street, from every building to the nearest park and playground. If the abandoned plot and a strip of the course along Calle Dr. Alfonso Chiscano Díaz become a public park:

Walking distance to the nearest park

Today1,145 m

With the plot and the strip258 m

Median for the homes on Ctra. de Chile and Calle Dr. Alfonso Chiscano Díaz. Bars to the same scale.

What we ask for, to scale

Strip along C/ Dr. Alfonso Chiscano Díaz: 0.53 ha (6%)Rest of the golf course: 8.6 ha

Plus the abandoned plot next to the golf car park: 0.38 ha, outside the course.

Every home on our streets would be within 500 m of a park.
About 6,400 people across the city would have a park within 500 m, including in the neighbourhood north of the course.
The golf course would keep 94% of its area. The tall net that stops balls from the driving range already separates the strip from the rest of the course.

The full study

How we measured the walking distances, a map of every building, the other sites we looked at, and the history of the municipal golf course.

Read the study En español

Why there?

It is municipal land. The course belongs to the city, through the Instituto Municipal de Deportes (IMD). In 2015 the city paid €4.1 million to take back the concession.
It is leased, not sold. Since 2022 the Federación Canaria de Golf runs it under a concession from the IMD, and the city keeps the right to take the land back.
"Public use" means paying. To get in you pay the green fee. It is not a place to walk or for children to play.
Next to the course there is an abandoned plot, beside the golf car park, where building work started and was never finished. Today it serves no one.

Join us.

The more neighbours we are, the stronger our petition to the city council.

1. Sign upLeave your name and how to reach you. We will let you know about the meeting and the signature collection.
2. Sign the petitionWe will collect signatures on paper, building by building, and file them at the city council's registry.
3. Come to the neighbours' meetingDate, time and place: to be announced.

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