Compensation for Palma bars hit by the 200 road works

PALMA
SOME parts of Palma have been transformed into building sites by the 200 public works projects which have been launched by the City Council this summer and city residents and businesses are starting to get angry.

In Calle Blanquerna, for example, bars and restaurants have watched their terraces being ripped up while residents are unable to access their private car parking facilities and the council has been forced to offer them alternative free parking facilities for the duration of the road works. Local traders cannot get to their lock-ups and storerooms and some are running up scores of parking fines.

The council has also announced that those bars and restaurants whose terraces have been closed by building work will be compensated.
The Mayor of Palma, AIna Calvo, who over the past week has come under growing criticism over the general chaos and dirt the building works are causing this summer, has said that an estimated 148 bars and restaurants will have the terrace rates they pay reimbursed for the period their terraces are out of action. The current terrace rates are 12 cents per square metre per day.