The Ibiza nightlife sector denounces the Pikes hotel for alleged urban planning infringement on protected rural land
The nightlife sector assures that the establishment is located on protected rural land and asks to review its urban planning situation in the face of possible irregularities
PalmaThe Business Association of Nightlife (AEON) has reported the Pikes hotel to the Consell d'Eivissa and the Sant Antoni City Council for alleged urban planning violations and has requested both institutions to carry out inspections to verify activity licenses.
The employers' association, chaired by Pepe Roselló, who was the owner of the former Space nightclub, filed the complaints hours before the hotel's opening parties scheduled for this weekend, the entity reported in a statement. In detail, it has submitted a legal report to the Sant Antoni City Council denouncing the alleged violation of the General Urban Planning Plan of Sant Antoni and the regional Urbanism Law, for “works, land uses, and activities inconsistent with the land's classification or without the required license”.
According to the association, the property is located within what is termed "non-urban land," where an area of 1,937 m² is within a Natural Area of Special Interest (ANEI) and housing use is prohibited. It added that the remaining area of 35,515 m² “corresponds to common rural land” and that housing use must be authorized by the Insular Commission of Urbanism and Heritage. On this property, currently, “only a single-family home can be built with a maximum above-ground volume of 900 cubic meters, in addition to services and industries linked to the field”, while “there is no record of the granting of a Declaration of General Interest” for other types of activities.
It also warned that the activity licenses authorized for the establishment are unknown and that the installation of containers has been observed which, in its opinion, “could be used as housing” and are located on rural land. The association has requested “one more time” for control of licenses, capacities, and opening hours of hotels that operate as nightclubs and has denounced that the activities carried out by this hotel “generate a great impact and have been the subject of neighbor complaints and reports for noise and crowds”. Overall, the association has requested the immediate suspension of any “expansion work or the cessation of any irregular activity, as a precautionary measure”.
