The Ibiza City Council will take the first step this Monday to create a new green zone between Els Llimoners and La Real. The municipal plenary session will vote on the initial approval of a modification to the General Urban Development Plan that will allow for the transformation of 3,273 square meters of municipal property into public open space.

GEN-GOB has submitted allegations to the Balearic Islands' Agrarian Law Project because it considers that the text distorts the objective of promoting agricultural activity and favors tourist and urban uses of rustic land. The entity maintains that the regulation could consolidate the tertiarization of the countryside and hinder the competitiveness of farmers, in addition to generating inequalities between islands, especially in the case of Ibiza, which is subjected to high tourist pressure.

David versus Goliath or how to organize from citizen action against a construction that the neighbors consider a new aggression to the Manacor coastal landscape. “If the Portocristo bridge ended up falling due to a poorly granted license, perhaps this one will too,” says Miquel Àngel Riera, the neighbor from Cala Mendia beach who is leading a joint lawsuit against the construction of a beach club for almost 300 users, which a few months ago began to grow by surprise in front of his terrace.

The Urban Planning Department of Palma City Council approved this Tuesday a modification of the General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) to incorporate a new road linked to the development of the strategic residential project of Son Puigdorfila, where more than 600 homes are planned to be built, more than half of which will have some form of protection. The action provides for the opening of Carrer del Pensament to guarantee the accessibility of the future residential area and connect it with the existing road network, as reported by the City Council in a statement.

It has been eight years since the Sant Llorenç flash flood. The tragic death of 13 people brought to the table how poorly things have been done for decades, and how we have accumulated people and homes in places where it was not only already prohibited to do so, but where common sense also dictated it was not a good idea.

Having 14,000 square meters of common rustic land will no longer be enough, on its own, to be able to build a house of more than 100 square meters. If the agrarian law bill approved by the Governing Council ends up passing parliamentary processing, building a new large-scale dwelling in the countryside (the majority of those being built are) will be linked to an agrarian obligation that must be maintained for 15 years.

The Councilor for Urban Planning and Heritage of the Andratx City Council, Beatriz Casanova Fuentes, submitted her resignation this Monday for personal reasons. From now on, the mayor, Estefanía Gonzalvo, will directly assume the responsibilities of Urban Planning and Heritage while the City Council prepares an internal restructuring of the municipal areas.

The fast track that Palma City Council announced in May 2024 to speed up the granting of urban planning licenses has only accelerated 15 of them so far. The City Council assures that there are ten more licenses in process, but it has not provided the rest of the data necessary to evaluate how the system is working. More than two weeks after receiving the questions from ARA Balears, Urban Planning continues to not clarify how many applications have been submitted, what the average timeframe is, how much the service costs, or if the queue for the ordinary process has been reduced.

Some data from recent studies should not go unnoticed. Mallorca has lost 189 km² of agricultural land (1990-2018); 46% corresponds to new urban land (Chair of Insularity, UIB). Today, there are 55,256 buildings counted on the island on rustic land (Houses that do not exist, Miquel Rosselló). And, according to Terraferida, the rustic land has been denatured at a rate of 180 hectares per year (2021-2024). These are not anecdotal figures: they portray a rural world immersed in a context loaded with unsustainable trends that provoke a deep territorial transformation.

The GOB has formally requested from the Andratx City Council the urban planning license and the complete file that authorize the large excavation works being carried out on a hillside in Port d'Andratx. The environmental organization wants to clarify to what extent the deep clearing of the mountain, visible from various points in the area, was foreseen in the authorized project and whether the works being done there comply with the conditions of the license.

The residents of Port d'Andratx denounce the strong landscape and environmental impact of a large excavation that is being carried out on the mountain in the area and which, they claim, has forced them to live with the noise of heavy machinery for years. The residents describe the situation as an "environmental attack" and an "authentic hell" and demand explanations regarding the purpose of the works.

The residents of Port d’Andratx are fed up with finding more and more obstacles to reach the sea. The closure of one of the traditional accesses to the Sant Carles path, in the direction of La Mola, by a foreign millionaire who owns a mansion there, has once again ignited the discontent among residents, who denounce a progressive "privatization" of the paths leading to the coast. For this Saturday, August 29, they have called a neighborhood meeting to demand that the passage located between numbers 22 and 24 of the street be recovered.

The spokesperson for MÉS per Palma, Neus Truyol, has presented a series of amendments to the new Ordinance on Urbanization, Tree Cover, and Public Spaces to increase vegetation and shaded areas and implement climate shelters in all neighborhoods in the face of rising temperatures. She accused the PP this Monday of proposing a "lackluster" regulation that, in her opinion, does not prepare the city to face the climate emergency and will condemn residents to suffer "hellish summers".

The renovation project of na Ferrilla street, in Inca, has been recognized as one of the 25 best public space works in Europe, within the framework of the European Prize for Urban Public Space 2026, one of the most prestigious awards in the field of architecture, landscape, and urbanism. The Inca City Council highlighted this Thursday that the award, biennial in nature, recognizes interventions that contribute to creating, recovering, and improving public spaces in European cities, to promote more accessible, inclusive, and quality environments.

The Inca City Council has reinforced actions to require owners of plots in the municipality to keep the land clean and in compliance with regulations. In case of non-compliance, the Council will impose fines ranging from 300 to 9,000 euros and, if the owner continues to fail to act despite the penalty, it will subsidiarily carry out the cleaning work and subsequently reclaim the cost.

The Balearic Islands face a complicated summer in terms of water supply and, more worryingly, a race against time to guarantee this resource in the coming years. The problem is no longer just whether it will rain more or less in the coming months, but whether the current system, at its limit during the summer months, will be able to withstand while the infrastructure to reduce dependence on aquifers arrives. The Islands are preparing an offensive of investments in desalination, reuse, supply networks, and sanitation, but a good part of these actions are still in the project, tender, or execution phase.

The Omnibus Law was intended to be an instrument for regulating strategic business projects and will go down in history as one of the most deregulatory norms regarding territorial and environmental matters. Among its provisions, there is one that eliminates the restrictions that the Government (former PP councilor Gabriel Company) had promoted to limit the establishment of catering establishments in the maritime-terrestrial public domain.

The GOB has asked the Balearic town councils this Thursday to report on how many constructions on rural land have been legalized through the positive administrative silence mechanism, after the Government eliminated this route with the new Law on urgent measures for strategic projects.