Bylaws
Palma town hall accused of destroying businesses
The terrace war is continuing to rage in Palma and is soon to end up in the courts.
Animal welfare
Palma buses to be used for campaign against pet abandonment
"Love us forever. Do not abandon us".
Bylaws
Town hall in a hurry to agree terraces bylaw
The bylaw will in principle forbid terraces in streets that are under 3.5 metres in width.
Planning
Delays persisting in the issuing of Palma building licences
"The electronic administration is in diapers. We are working with systems from the nineteenth century."
Heritage
Bellver Castle restoration set for this year
The town hall administration has been in office for more than two and a half years, and nothing has yet been done.
Town halls
Town hall tensions threatening Palma's 2018 budget
Thinly disguised difficulties in the relationship between PSOE, Més and Podemos are threatening the budget for 2018.
Animal welfare
Palma horse carriages will not operate during heatwaves
The town hall won't ban horse carriages, but it will not issue new licences and so gradually the carriages will be replaced.
Town halls
Town hall management is bad believe half Palma residents
Forty-nine per cent rated Palma's management as bad; 37% thought it was good.
Transport
Noguera quashes Palma plan for motorcycle parking payment
"Motorcycles will not pay. As long as I am mayor of Palma, such a measure will not apply."
Corruption
Police consider that Rodríguez controlled town hall "criminal machinery"
The National Police have presented the judge with an extraordinary analysis of systematic corruption at Palma town hall.
Construction
Building licence demand causing delays in Palma
Applications for building licences are now higher than before economic crisis, but they are being delayed because of a a lack of personnel.
Holiday rentals
Residents insisting on compliance with Palma rentals ban
Deputy mayor José Hila says that zoning decisions will affect the town hall's approval of an apartment rentals' ban.
Transport
Palma wanting an end to night flights
Palma town hall is making a number of requests about flights, noise and pollution.
Politics
Podemos could leave Palma town hall pact
There are various disagreements between Podemos and the other two parties governing Palma town hall.
Society
El Terreno is like the Third World
Pavements and streets in a poor condition, broken and dirty rubbish containers, walls with graffiti, squatters, and filth everywhere.
Corruption
Duran insists that the PP is not a corrupt party
"These matters don't affect a party, they affect a significant part of the institutional structure of the town hall."
Corruption
Mayor says sorry for new PP corruption scandal
Mayor Hila suspects that the PP organised a network at the town hall to serve its own interests and not those of the citizens.
Corruption
Palma town hall officials arrested in new investigation
The investigation is into the contract for operating the ORA blue zone car parking system.
Palma
Negotiations over Gesa building
The legal situation in respect of the Gesa building hasn’t changed, but Noguera doesn’t believe that this should put a brake on its rehabilitation.
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Big changes on the horizon when Britons travel to Mallorca
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Living in a motorhome in Palma: "It'll only get worse"