Tuesday 14th November 2017
Explanatory note on the suspension of licences from Calvià Town Hall
In light of the opinion of the Builders Association of the Balearic Islands that questions the legality of the Plenary Agreement of 26th October, which agreed the suspension of different types of licences in different areas of the municipality, the Calvià Town Hall, in order to clear up doubts and avoid the alarms that these statements may generate, reports:
FIRST.- The approved suspension of licences is not linked to the agreement of submission to public information of the General Urban Planning Preview, but because of such imminent fact, and once its content has transcended, precautionary measures are adopted to prevent new determinations from being ineffective due to supervening urban actions/works. All this, in accordance with the current urban planning legislation.
SECOND.- The published Plenary agreement explains in detail the type of licences that are suspended in each of the affected areas. Only in the areas included in sections 1 and 4 (false urban and EQ-R) all types of licences are suspended, being allowed the refurbishment works in the areas described in the other sections (2, 3 and 4).
The Town Hall understands that a hasty reading of the aforementioned agreement published may have led to the erroneous conclusions reached by the aforementioned Builders Association.
Calvià Town Hall has the duty to defend the general interest and citizen participation in the drafting of the General Urban Planning Preview although this means, in some cases, delaying the materialisation of certain particular urbanistic expectations that, although legitimate, being in contradiction with the determinations that are exposed to the public, are suspended for a maximum period of one year, or until the Initial Approval if this happens earlier, in accordance with articles 50 of the LOUS and 139 of the Mallorca Regulation that develops it.