El Polvorín Corner Park

Sunshine and Happy People

Fantástico lugar. Ideal para disfrutar una vida de ensueño con tus familiares.

El Polvorín Corner Park is a lovey small park space in the neighborhood of El Polvorín (San Antonio) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria when it is cleaned and maintained. Located across from the even smaller (but with shade and accessible / usable space) Hello House Neighborhood Park. Star lost as it needs a dedicated garbage can at the top and bottom end of the park that is city managed. 4 of 5 stars as it is beautiful when clean and maintained however it is only a look-at-me park and not designed to be entered by the public easily. Swirling wind and location attracts a lot of garbage that is blowing around the neighborhood. Garbage that lands into the various cactus and plant species planted here. Contributions from animals, school children, drunks, drivers throwing stuff out of their cars and wind deposit garbage in the park. No safely accesible garbage cans are nearby. El Polvorín Corner Park is on corner of a Very Dangerous Intersection with No Marked Crossings! The city needs to repaint crossings and install speed reduction bumps etc. as minimum for safety here. Sadly local kids and their parents do toss some garbage into the park. Spines on plants make it difficult for the workers and public (few parks workers on weekends) to help keep it clean. City garbage cans at the top and bottom of the park would really help reduce local littering. Very helpful would be parents who realize the bad lessons they demonstrate as they ignore their kids or animals tossing garbage and do so themselves. The private school kids waiting for their buses who toss trash is really sad. Very sad as the crazy tuition the families pay for these private schools. The kids learn zero for social morals (littering) and English. When speaking in English to tell them to clean up they don't understand. The kids from the free public schools in the area have shown better examples of cleaning. Paying for bad private schools that are no better then the public schools in the neighborhood is not a good idea. Better education, cleaning, parks service, before / during / after school care, catering for school meals could help to reduce the garbage and feed the kids healthy. Better food options at schools being paid for instead off private tuition may reduce the food, candy and junk food litter waste tossed into the park. The city and neighbors do make a serious effort to keep this park clean. Surprising is the majority of garbage swirling in the wind is due to poor design / engineering and no safely accesible garbage bins near this park. Garbage in the wind comes from sources such as the few people who just drop trash on the ground or out windows - especially the social / psychiatric housing unit nearby. Spain has a serious cigarette butt problem which contributes significantly to garbage and littering bad habits. More effort is needed to Engineer the local mindset, walking paths and crossings, garbage bins placement and design of to hold the garbage bins to hold that is deposited. Perhaps better Education and Engineering such as adopting the Netherlands method of having garbage bins underground could control the wind blown garbage that is the result of garbage escaping from bad designed garbage bins in high winds. Look at that, ideas for job creation, hiring, engineering, construction, recycling etc. Not recycling aluminum is a huge problem and easily noticed because a high volume of garbage and litter is aluminum cans, specifically beer cans, lying around in parks daily as their is no recycling incentive on the island. El Polvorín Corner Park is nice park to look at when it is clean. Neighbors recently repainted the walls to disappear the graffiti that was once everywhere on the parks walls too. 4 of 5 stars because it is a great park when it is clean. 1 star is lost because there is no city cleaning happening on weekends, no safely accessible garbage cans near the park and no safety engineering or road markings to easily walk from the park across the dangerous intersection to the nearest garbage bins.