The PSOE Palma criticized this Monday the removal of elements from the Bellver playground, an action that the socialists consider a dismantling of the play area. Cort, however, denied that the park is being eliminated and explained that they are removing, just as was agreed upon with the neighbors, the elements that were installed during the previous legislature, under the Pacte de Progrés.

The Palma City Council presented this Monday the modernization that the Municipal Sports Institute (IME) has carried out at the Son Moix Municipal Sports Palace. The interventions carried out there have involved the renovation of the lighting and sound systems of the pavilion and the swimming pool, to which must be added the comprehensive renovation of the removable parquet court, an action that was carried out during 2025. The total of these actions represents an investment of more than 1.1 million euros.One of the main actions has been the comprehensive renovation of the lighting of the main court of the Son Moix palace. The work, started last July 14th and concluded this September, has included the installation of new LED lighting and a new electrical infrastructure adapted so that sports competitions and television broadcasts can be held there. On the main court, a system consisting of 60 modular LED lights has been installed.The new installation also incorporates a control system, which allows for the configuration of different lighting scenes according to the needs of each activity. Likewise, a lighting system has been incorporated that allows the pavilion's atmosphere to be adapted to various types of events, from matches and sports competitions to presentations, institutional acts, and shows. The renovation has also allowed for the improvement of the lighting in the stands, through the installation of 24 new LED projectors.The lighting renovation works have been awarded to TECESA Acústica Visual S.L. and have involved an investment of 1,002,252 euros, VAT included.New sound system

Another of the renovations completed this month of September has been the renewal of the pavilion's sound system. Specifically, a new fixed sound system has been installed, adapted to the dimensions and characteristics of the venue, which improves the acoustic quality and ensures a more uniform distribution of sound in the different areas of the pavilion.The renovation of the sound system, awarded to NUNSYS S.A., has involved an investment of 67,852 euros, VAT included.The actions have also included the comprehensive renovation of the removable parquet court, an intervention that was carried out during 2025 and which was completed in October of the same year. It involved an investment of 90,306 euros and allowed for the improvement of safety conditions, sports performance, and the general quality of the facility.Renovation of the swimming pool lighting

The lighting modernization project has also been extended to the Son Moix swimming pool. The work was carried out between July 14 and 31, with the aim of minimizing the impact on facility users. The old system has been replaced by a new installation based on LED technology, which will allow for a reduction in energy consumption by more than 50% compared to the previous installation.This year, Son Moix turns 50, a milestone that coincides with an important process of renovation and modernization of the facilities, aimed at adapting the venue to current and future sporting needs.Authorities present

The event was presented by the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, who was accompanied by the first deputy mayor and councilor for Sports, Javier Bonet. Furthermore, representatives from the five clubs that carry out their activities at the palace and compete in top-level national categories attended: Azul Marino Palma, Illes Balears Palma Futsal, Club Voley Palma, Fibwi Palma and Palmer Basket Mallorca.Also present were the president of the Football Federation of the Balearic Islands, Jordi Horrach; the president of the Basketball Federation of the Balearic Islands, Juanjo Talens; and the president of the Volleyball Federation of the Balearic Islands, Pep Mas. On behalf of the Municipal Sports Institute (IME), the manager, Miguel Ángel Bennàssar, also attended.

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The blue zone in Palma will double its ORA parking spaces starting in January 2027, when the system will go from the current 12,000 to about 24,000. The expansion will reach new neighborhoods in the city and will come into operation on January 1st. Residents of the streets that are being incorporated will be able to start requesting the virtual badge this Wednesday, September 16th.

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Mabel Chavarino was walking from the Olivar market towards Sant Miquel when she suddenly saw, entering the pedestrian zone, three Local Police vans. A bunch of uniformed officers got out and she thought: "They are going to look for the street vendors". When she arrived at Sant Miquel, she observed how dozens of people in plain clothes –she counted more than thirty– began to put on identification vests. They were also police officers. She realized that "they are not only going to look for the street vendors" –that is what she calls them–, but that they were going after the street artists. The officers began to draw up reports, seize their equipment, put their things into garbage bags and deposit everything into the police vehicles. "Not even in an operation against drug trafficking", she summarizes.

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The remodeling of the Gesa building will be finished by the end of 2029 "if action is taken with diligence." This was explained this Friday by one of the architects responsible for the project, Antonio Cruz, during the presentation of the proposal at a press conference held in the vicinity of the building itself, with the presence of the mayor, Jaime Martínez, and other authorities. The project provides for minimal intervention and more green areas.

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What began as a spontaneous conversation between mothers and fathers at the Escorxador park in Palma has become a citizen platform. The conclusion they always ended with was the same: "What a shame, what the neighborhood has turned into," explains Joan Gomáriz, a member of Salvem s'Escorxador. They began to coordinate, and suddenly, there were a hundred people in a WhatsApp group. Then came the support of the neighborhood associations of Santa Pagesa and Can Capiscol, and the promise to reactivate the Camp Redó neighborhood community.

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Palma City Council asserts that it had carried out the necessary procedures to be able to purchase the Can Pesquet plot, in Son Sardina, but that in the end a private individual got ahead and acquired the property. The Council maintains that it could not "prevent" or "control" this operation and admits that it has not yet decided what steps to follow to try to resume the situation.

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The councilwoman for Podem at the Palma City Council, Lucía Muñoz, will run in the party's primaries to head the candidacy for Cort in the 2027 municipal elections. Muñoz announced her decision this Tuesday through a video in which she asserts the need to build a political majority to tackle tourist overcrowding and guarantee access to housing.

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The citizens' platform Flipau amb Pere Garau has asked the Cort Mobility area to include the sidewalk of the even numbers of Reis Catòlics street in the ORA zone expansion "to avoid comparative grievances". The horizontal signaling for the expansion of the ORA zone in Palma has already begun, with an eye on the new regulation, which will come into force on January 1, 2027.The platform believes that including only one side of the street could also generate "confusion" among residents. As an example, it points to the street of Josep Darder Metge, where the ORA zone is applied to both sides even though they belong to different neighborhoods. Flipau amb Pere Garau had already previously requested actions on Reis Catòlics and other streets in the area due to problems related to the occupation of sidewalks by vans.

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The High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands has once again set limits on one of the paths that landowners have historically used to try to obtain urban development rights on rustic land: arguing that the physical reality has already, in fact, turned them into city. However, the arrival of services, being surrounded by a road, or the fact that urbanization has gradually approached the property is not enough, in itself, to convert it into consolidated urban land, according to a recent ruling by the TSJIB.

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The Palma City Council has begun works to repair and restore a section of the Puig de Sant Pere wall, an intervention that will allow the recovery of part of the structure and enhance this element of the city's heritage.

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The UGT union has called off the strike at the Son Reus Animal Welfare Center managed by the concessionaire Athisa, which began on August 24, amid accusations of strikebreaking, and has announced a legal offensive. The union organization explained that it is withdrawing the protest after confirming the neutralization of the pressure measure as a direct consequence of the “serious and illegal external strikebreaking perpetrated by the municipal management of the Palma City Council”.

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The suspension during the month of August of line 19 of EMT Palma, which usually connects the UIB and Parc Bit with Porta del Camp, has caused the saturation of line 16, which serves Secar de la Real and Establiments, according to neighborhood residents. EMT announced that the L19 would be out of service during August and would resume its route on September 1.

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UGT Public Services reported this Thursday that the strike in protest against precariousness at the Son Reus municipal kennels, in Palma, which began indefinitely last Monday at 2 p.m., has one hundred percent follow-up. The staff is complying in a "strict and scrupulous" manner with the minimum services decreed, despite considering that they are curtailing their fundamental right to strike, the union assured.

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The mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, has invited citizens to participate in a demonstration in the Plaça de Cort on Wednesday, September 2, at 8:00 PM, coinciding with Ceuta Day, in solidarity with the autonomous city and to "defend the territorial integrity" of Spain. The same square that just a month ago "was saturated with events" and that prevented the outdoor dinner organized by Brunzzit from being held normally, has been denounced by Podem. The City Council has thus joined the call by the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces to gather in front of town halls as a show of solidarity with Ceuta. Martínez pointed out that "what is happening in Ceuta concerns everyone" and that it "must serve as a warning" to the Islands, as he highlighted in a video published on Instagram.

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The terraces on the passeig del Born will have to disappear this Wednesday afternoon due to the risk that Brunzzit's last al fresco dinner could lead, according to the National Police, to acts of "coercion, sabotage or direct confrontation" against hospitality establishments. The citizens' collective had called for a walk and a dinner on the promenade benches to reclaim a space they consider to be progressively occupied by the terraces. Brunzzit has rejected the police suspicions and has denounced that the intention is to "criminalize" an initiative that has always been carried out without incident until now.

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The institutions of the Balearic Islands have acknowledged the impact of tourist saturation on citizens. However, the remedies to alleviate its effects are diverse, while the Islands are on track to reach 20 million visitors this 2026. In the case of the Palma City Council, the Fundació Turisme Palma 365 is committed to "improving the perception" that residents of the city have of tourist activity, with a strategy whose objective is to work on the "pride of belonging" of the people of Palma to their city, in the words of the entity's manager, Pedro Homar.

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The residents of Son Sardina have exploded against the Palma City Council after the real estate company Solvia sold the Can Pesquet plot to a private individual, a space that the neighborhood has been claiming for years to turn it into a square and a community center. "We are facing an absolute display of contempt," they lamented. The popular assembly of Son Sardina and La Garriga assures that the mayor of Palma, Jaime Martínez, knows "how important this plot is" for the neighborhood and recalls that they have carried out mobilizations and various protest actions before different government teams to demand more public spaces. According to their complaints, this lack of space even makes it difficult to hold the neighborhood festivals each year. This Tuesday, the Palma council emphasized that they have been in talks with the current owner for months and that if an agreement is not reached, they will end up expropriating the property.

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British singer John Newman and Rudimental DJ will headline on September 5 the patron saint's concert of Palma, which will take place at Parc de la Mar and which, after last year's edition, which brought together more than 32,000 people, the event will once again occupy the six lanes of the Maritime Promenade.

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The Detailed Urban Plan (POD) of Palma still has no timetable two years after municipal technicians took over its drafting. It is a fundamental instrument for interpreting and applying Palma's General Plan, approved by the Pact shortly before losing the elections. Cort assures that the document handed over by Territorios y Ciudad “did not meet the necessary conditions for its approval,” but does not specify what deficiencies it had, what work has been done since April 2024, or what remains to be completed.

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