While GxF, PSOE and Sa Unió are working against the clock to articulate a motion of censure to facilitate a minority government of the coalition formed by the Popular Party and Compromís once the resignation of José Manuel Alcaraz, who will no longer be its spokesman, has been formalized, the president of the Consell de Formentera, Llorenç Córdoba, maintains his government action.
Thus, throughout this morning will request the department of Urbanism of the institution the ex officio review of two urban planning files. As advanced in an interview published in La Voz de Ibiza, it is to review the express license granted to Nimbus Formentera, SL that facilitates the legalization and rehabilitation of the restaurant Caminito. And also the Study of Detail that has facilitated the project of the Hotel Flor de Sal & Spa that the controversial businessman Angel Bustos is trying to place on the market for 22 million euros guaranteeing the buyer a license that does not have or for 50 million built.
Ex officio review
This has assured Cordoba to La Voz de Ibiza in the last hours. “I request the ex officio review of these two files to the Department of Urbanism to verify that they have been given correctly. I do not want to say anything more until we have the conclusions of the ex officio review requested,” Cordoba explained to this media. Both cases, unveiled exclusively by La Voz de Ibiza, are part of the systemic corruption that Cordoba suspects installed in Formentera in which Sa Unió, PSOE, GxF, certain officials and certain businessmen would be involved. “The indications and suspicions point in this direction,” admitted Cordoba in a recent interview published in La Voz de Ibiza.
Formentera mess
The license to the old Caminito restaurant and the Detailed Study that has allowed the hotel that Bustos projects are different cases. Thus, the express license granted behind his back to the Caminito restaurant has been qualified as null and void by experts consulted by this media to the extent that it violates the Urban Planning Law of the Balearic Islands (LUIB). The reason is that it authorizes a basic project that does not comply with the height on the condition that it is modified in the executive project, something that is expressly prohibited. It would also violate the Law of Activities since the initial activity of restaurant with show included in the project cannot be authorized either. In spite of this, the project was approved when the project should have been modified instead of authorized with prescriptions, as was done.
The project has all the favorable sectorial reports.
This case is part of the documentation that Llorenç Cordoba brought to the attention of the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office along with the documentation of the contest under suspicion of beach services and the incompatibility of Javier Serra and that has led to the investigation of the UCO. Behind the questioned project, is the former president of the PP of Formentera, Juan Manuel Costa Escanellas Paya, president of the hotel association of Formentera, the founding family of the Pacha Group, and the son of the previous operator of the restaurant, whose property is owned by the family of the general secretary of GxF .
Changes on the NNSS in es Pujols
Cordoba did not include in the complaint to the Prosecutor’s Office, however, the Study of Detail of es Pujos, to which he referred, however, as “quite suspicious changes of urban figures that should be investigated” and sometimes as an urban requalification. In this case, it is “a legal trick” that has facilitated an increase in the buildable area by allowing terraces that, however, do not compute in the sum of the authorized buildable area. There has been a substantial increase in the occupation of the plot with respect to the Subsidiary Rules of Formentera. Thus, the four buildings instead of the two foreseen in the planning of Formentera occupy 32.5% of the plot as opposed to the 20% foreseen. This 60% of building obviously reduces the private free space. The promoters of the Study of Detail, the family that owns the restaurant and apartments sa Palmera, is that the hotel will enjoy “large terraces without increasing the maximum authorized use”. The increase in surface area is accompanied by a change of location within the plots of the four buildings divided into two units of two buildings each linked by a walkway also obviously involves a greater felling of trees in the pine forest of es Pujols: 124 compared to the 56 initially planned. Curiously, the justification for the increase in tree felling is the protection of the pine forest. “The objective is to minimize the felling of trees” (sic), justifies the report. “One of the objectives of this Study of Detail, is to minimize the felling of trees, distributing the resulting buildability in 4 smaller buildings, strategically located in areas of lower density or smaller trees,” wields the Study of Detail approved in June 2022 under the mandate of the socialist Ana Juan. To counteract the logging, the developers are committed to repopulate the pine forest with 246 new units.
