The First Section of the Administrative Chamber of the National Court has dismissed the appeal filed by the developer Edivissa seeking recognition of its right to obtain a coastal concession to operate the 9,215-square-meter plot of land that has been used for decades as a parking lot within the public domain and on the Alaior coast in southern Menorca. The judges rejected Edivissa's claim to recover the uses and rights it held before the current Coastal Law came into effect in 1988, when it did charge vehicles for parking, and upheld the decision made in February 2022 by the Ministry of the Environment. The fact that the parking lot was not authorized before the coastal delimitation, as proven by the Alaior Town Council, is essential for the Court, which concludes that "an unlicensed activity does not establish the right to continue it when it persists over time. The fact that the uses have been tolerated all these years does not imply a license." With this argument, the Court invalidates Edivissa's argument, which claimed that the plot has been used as a beach parking lot since 1973 and that the Coastal Law allows for the maintenance of uses existing prior to the 1988 delimitation, even if they are not legal. The developer maintains that "there was tacit authorization, since the operation of the parking lot was known and even promoted by the Alaior Town Council, which has carried out improvements to the esplanade." It even recalls that the Ministry of the Environment has endorsed the public interest of the parking facility, which Edivissa believes is "compatible" with the environmental values of the protected area in which it is located.