In 2018 the GOB already warned of the purchase operation of the plot adjacent to the current illegal car park and already argued against the start of processing the declaration of general interest to be made in the new car park. If the Town Hall protects this action, it could be considered a clear case of prevarication.

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The GOB has been calling for years for the closure of the current illegal car park, which has been operating for more than 40 years behind the beach of Cala Agulla (polygon 9, plot 85), located in a Natural Area of ‘Special Interest (ANEI) and in an area declared a Site of Community Importance (SCI) and a Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA). The closure of this car park is now even more imminent due to the development of what is foreseen in the Plan de Ordenación de Recursos Naturales de Levante (PORN), currently being processed, which contains the first transitory provision which specifically specifies that “In particular, the Cala Agulla car park must be subject to environmental restoration and restitution of the physical reality by the owner. Subsidiarily, the Consejería de Medio Ambiente y Territorio or the municipal or insular administrations may carry out the restitution at the expense of the owner, after two years have elapsed without this having taken place”.

In 2018 we found out that the owners of the current car park, terminated the lease contract with the entity that exploited the car park and bought some new adjoining land (plot 84, polygon 9), and requested the declaration of General Interest, to move the current car park to the adjoining plot they had bought. On the same site, they began work and earthworks to create the new car park, without any permission. These works were denounced by the GOB, which also argued against the declaration of general interest. https://www.gobmallorca.com/que-feim/territori-i-urbanisme/el-gob-contra-el-nou-aparcament-que-es-preten-a-cala-agulla

Sometime later, we learned that the developer had withdrawn the request for a declaration of general interest. We had not heard anything again until its publication in a local newspaper this very week (http://www.capvermell.org) regarding the adoption of a municipal agreement by the political parties of the Capdepera Town Hall, in the Plenary Affairs Commission of 4th August, in which an alternative to the current car park was agreed upon, specifically a location that coincides, surprisingly, with the plot on which, some time ago, the declaration of general interest had been processed and withdrawn: plot 84 of polygon 9, classified as general rustic land.

The approval includes a series of conditions:

The structures will have to be wooden and dismountable.
Electricity will be provided by solar panels.
The circulation of vehicles will have an entrance and an exit road.
The pine forest area will be preserved and trees will be planted.
It will have a maximum capacity of 450 cars.
It is also pointed out that the aforementioned plot has a building that could be adapted for the car park services.
The GOB considers this municipal agreement inadmissible and, in fact, warns that it could be considered administrative prevarication, given that the proposed alternative is in no way justified beyond the convenience on the part of the current owners of the land, who bought it with the intention of exploiting the new car park for Cala Agulla.

As if this were not enough, the plot in question is located partly within ANEI and is affected by a fire RPA as already mentioned. The whole plot is located in the coastal protection area and part of it is included in the protection easement of the Coastal Law. In view of the recovery needs of the area and the current pressure on the natural area of Cala Agulla, which has been particularly evident this summer, we at the GOB continue to maintain that it is necessary to close the road traffic and locate the car park outside the natural area and preferably within the already urban area, which has sufficient roads.

We demand that the administrations involved, beyond the Town Hall, get involved in the matter and reject the Town Hall’s proposal as unjustified and possibly fraudulent.