Mallorca PIAT implementation questioned by MÉS
MÉS per Mallorca has accused the Consell de Mallorca of serious failures in implementing the PIAT, Mallorca’s tourism planning intervention scheme. On 22 August in Palma, Mallorca, the party filed questions seeking an account of progress six years after the plan was approved.
The party said the island authority’s stated policy of restraint was inadequate amid intense tourism pressure and growing public concern about overcrowding. It is asking which of the PIAT’s measures the Consell de Mallorca has actually put into effect.
Approved in July 2020, when MÉS per Mallorca was part of the island government, the PIAT was intended to organise tourism activity spatially and curb its expansion. It also sets a ceiling on tourist accommodation places, which President Llorenç Galmés has repeatedly said he would reduce, according to MÉS, without the change yet being made.
Planning, beach access and mobility
MÉS has requested details of municipal planning schemes, comprehensive tourism rehabilitation plans, declarations of regional and tourism interest, landscape-improvement projects and special plans governing access to beaches.
It also wants to know whether the Consell de Mallorca has introduced measures to promote a network of cycle routes and walking trails. The party has asked about the island tourism mobility plan envisaged in the PIAT and whether car-hire firms meet requirements to provide sufficient private parking for their fleets.
Checks on councils and new tourism supply
The questions also concern a PIAT provision that gave local councils a deadline to align their urban-planning rules with the scheme. MÉS is seeking figures on how many councils complied and what action the Consell de Mallorca has taken where they did not.
Catalina Inés Perelló, MÉS per Mallorca’s spokesperson at the Consell de Mallorca, said the authority should scrutinise every new tourist place and establishment required to comply with the PIAT, rather than merely recording capacity figures.
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Source: Europa Press / Mallorca.com