Accuse the Council of leaving the PIAT "in a drawer" while tourist pressure grows
MÉS demands information about the planning schemes, the cycle paths, the accesses to the beaches and the monitoring mechanisms of the plan
PalmaMÉS per Mallorca has registered a series of questions to the Consell de Mallorca to ascertain the degree of compliance with the Plan for Intervention in Tourist Areas (PIAT), approved six years ago, and has accused the island government of the PP of not applying the tools provided to contain tourist pressure.
The ecosovereignist spokesperson on the Council, Catalina Inés Perelló, has requested to know which PIAT measures have been executed and has argued that this instrument "cannot be a rule that remains in a drawer while Mallorca suffers the effects of an increasingly intensive tourism model".
The PIAT was definitively approved in July 2020 with the aim of territorially ordering tourist activity and establishes, among other things, a ceiling on places and different instruments for ordering, mobility, and adaptation of municipal planning.
MÉS has requested information on the planning plans drawn up by the town councils, those for integral tourist rehabilitation, landscape improvement projects, and special plans to regulate access to beaches. It also asks about the development of measures to promote a network of cycle paths and hiking routes, the monitoring and participation bodies provided for in the PIAT, and the technical instructions and best practice guides that the island administration was to draw up.
The party also wants to know how many town councils have adapted their urban planning to the PIAT and what measures the Council has taken against municipalities that have not complied with this obligation.
Perelló has criticized the PP for talking about containing overtourism while, according to her, it does not apply the available planning tools and has called on the island government to make public the degree of execution of the PIAT.
Furthermore, she has framed her request within the context of the high tourist pressure this summer and recalled that the Balearic Islands reached a hotel occupancy rate of 87.4% in July, the highest in Spain, while Mallorca exceeded eight million hotel overnight stays.
