The Consell de Ibiza approved this Monday, through the Insular Commission for Spatial Planning, Urban Development and Historical and Artistic Heritage of Ibiza and Formentera (Ciotupha), the Provisional Planning Regulations (NPP) for Sant Josep. This initial approval, from which the rest of the political groups abstained, entails the long-awaited suspension of the municipality’s Subsidiary Planning Regulations, which had been in force since 1986, according to the president of the Consell, Vicent Marí.
“They were regulations with serious technical deficiencies, planning and management problems, ongoing litigation and differing interpretations that were no longer in line with current legislation”, Marí said.
The NPPs define land use on municipally owned land and will serve as a transitional framework between the current obsolete regulations and the future General Urban Development Plan (PGOU) of Sant Josep. In this context, the new regulations incorporate, for the first time, land suitable for industrial and service activities near Ibiza Airport.
Expansion of industrial land in Sant Josep near the airport
According to Marí, the plan is the reclassification of an area of around nine hectares as industrial land. It will be a “developable sector with 45,000 square metres of industrial buildings, of which around 15,000 to 20,000 square metres will be public”, explained the vice-president of the Consell, Mariano Juan Colomar.
“This location has been chosen because there is already an industrial area there, which will now be expanded, and because it is next to a main road that provides strong logistical support to the area”, he added.
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