The Manacor City Council urged the Government this Monday to stop the project to build a mega-farm with 80,000 laying hens on the Son Brau estate. The proposal received the support of all municipal groups, both from the parties forming the government team (MÉS-Esquerra, PSOE, and AIPC) and from the Popular Party. Only Vox distanced itself. The Consistory bases its request on a series of unfavorable environmental reports issued by municipal technicians.

Nobody wants it. As already happened with the Sineu macro-farm project, to which Maria and Llubí were opposed, the initiative that the same company now wants to carry out in Manacor has met with opposition from neighboring towns. Petra and Ariany are also raising their voices due to the project's proximity to urban centers.

“We ask the Manacor City Council and the Government to stop this aberration which, among other things, will produce eight tons of manure daily. When it rains, they will intoxicate all the aquifers that reach the city,” denounced this Wednesday afternoon Sílvia Llull, one of those affected by the mega-farm of 80,000 laying hens that the company Avícola Son Perot wants to build on the Manacor estate of Son Brau.

The company Avícola Son Perot SA intends to carry out the construction of a new poultry farm for egg production on a plot located in the municipal district of Manacor, near the residential area of Son Talent, following the Ma-3322 road.

The Socialists of Sineu have submitted a series of objections this week to the proposed amendments to the Subsidiary Planning Regulations with a clear objective: to prevent the establishment of large, high-intensity livestock farms in the municipality. The proposal aims to limit the size of future farms and prevent the accumulation of several large-capacity facilities in the same area. According to the Socialists, the urban planning document currently open for public comment could allow new farms with up to 560 Gross Livestock Units (UBG), a threshold roughly equivalent to 40,000 laying hens in the case of poultry. This possibility would be included within the area located between two and four kilometers from urban centers, which, according to the Socialist Party (PSOE), would open the door to mega-farms. "A 40,000-laying-hen farm in Sineu would be excessive, and the new Subsidiary Regulations must prevent it," states the Socialist spokesperson in the municipality, José Manuel García, who proposes reducing the limit to 280 UBG. Defense of a traditional and family-based agricultural model

The group asserts that the establishment of large-scale intensive farms contradicts the town's productive essence. "We defend the agricultural model based on family farms and extensive agriculture, which is what has historically defined Sineu," García emphasizes. According to him, the regional decree allows for large facilities, but municipal planning regulations can limit them to protect the land. The Secretary General of the PSOE in Mallorca, Amanda Fernández, reinforces this position: "Government regulations allow for mega-farms, but that's not what the people of Sineu want, nor what we want." Minimum distance of one kilometer between farms

Another proposal suggests increasing the minimum distance between farms to one kilometer to avoid "cumulative effects" that, collectively, exceed the limit of 280 Livestock Units (LU). The aim is to prevent several nearby facilities from generating environmental impacts or problems of coexistence with the municipality. Furthermore, the Socialist group proposes introducing a new regulatory category: "Intensive Livestock Farm of Industrial Dimensions." This definition seeks to clearly differentiate large-scale facilities from extensive and family farms, applying the establishment and expansion restrictions only to the former.

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