The nightlife sector denounces the Pikes hotel for alleged urban planning infringement on protected rural land in Ibiza
The nightlife sector assures that the establishment is located on protected rural land and asks to review its urban planning situation due to possible irregularities
PalmThe Business Association of Nightlife (AEON) has filed a complaint against the Pikes hotel with the Consell d'Eivissa and the Sant Antoni City Council for alleged urban planning violations and has requested inspections from both institutions to verify activity licenses.
The business association presided over 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 classification or without the required license”.
According to the association, the property is located within what is termed "non-developable land," where an area of 1,937 m² is within a Natural Area of Special Interest (ANEI) and residential use is prohibited. It added that the remaining area of 35,515 m² “corresponds to common rustic land” and that residential 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 volume above ground of 900 cubic meters, in addition to services and industries linked to the field”, while “no Declaration of General Interest has been granted” for other types of activities.
It also warned that the authorized activity licenses in 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 rustic land. The association has demanded "once again" control over the licenses, capacities, and operating 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 due to noise and crowd influx”. All in all, the association has requested the immediate suspension of any “expansion works or the cessation of any irregular activity, as a precautionary measure”.
