Hotel enlargements in Playa de Palma to be checked

The hotel where two workers were killed and which is one of those of "double enlargement". | A. Sepúlveda

Majorca Daily Bulletin reporterPalma30/09/2015 00:00

The increase in size of four hotels in Playa de Palma is to be reviewed by Palma Town Hall. Although these hotels have received favourable reports from the tourism ministry in accordance with the tourism act, the town hall believes that there are discrepancies caused by also applying provisions under the Playa de Palma reconversion plan (PRI).

The councillor for urban planning has asked for a report from the unit that drew up the PRI in order to see if discrepancies do indeed apply.

What the town hall is getting at is that there may be cases of “double enlargement,” the director of urban planning, Joan Riera, explaining that the law allowed for hotels to be increased in size and that when the PRI was drafted the developments permitted under the act were incorporated into it.

Before the PRI came into force, nineteen applications had been approved under the provisions of the law, and when PRI did come into effect, there were 23 new projects, four of which can be considered to be of “double enlargement.”