Council finally approves holiday rentals zoning

With the approval, which is to be made official when it appears on the Official Bulletin (which should be today), the moratorium on new rental licences is lifted. There will in all be some 30,000 holiday rentals places (beds) which can be registered, subject to the various conditions set out in the government's legislation. Initially, 20,000 of these are to be available for registration. The remaining 10,000 will wait for what may be as long as two years. This is because aspects of PIAT need to be fully defined. As such, therefore, the agreement on PIAT yesterday is an initial one.

The opposition parties, the Partido Popular, Ciudadanos and El Pi, all voted against the plan. They complained in particular about the lack of dialogue by the land department and the councillor, Mercedes Garrido, who has been in charge of the zoning.