The City denies a reduced mobility parking space in Calderón de la Barca

The Councilor for Urban Planning and Transport of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, Rafael Martínez Peñalver Mateos, has resolved to DENY the installation of a generic-use parking reservation for people with reduced mobility on Calderón de la Barca street. The decision is contained in his decree dated 27.10.26, endorsed on 03/11/2026, and is published in the Official Gazette of the Autonomous City of Ceuta (BOCCE) No. 6,668, of Tuesday, November 10, 2026, under “Other Provisions and Agreements,” with provision number 747 and file reference 58.355/26.

The technical criterion: five reservations where the regulation sets one

File 58.355/26 was initiated ex officio in the LODIU Administrative Unit, regarding the signaling of a generic-use parking reservation for people with reduced mobility on that road. The Technical Services of the Department of Urban Planning and Transport issued report No. 1,242/26 on October 1, 2026, which maintains that it is not appropriate to authorize more spaces on the street.

According to that report, there is a previous technical report for the declaration of the street as saturated with exclusive-use parking reservations, in which the number of reservations on Calderón de la Barca street was established at 5, compared to 1, which would be the minimum ratio according to the regulations. Following an inspection visit, it was confirmed that there are 5 reservations, of which 3 are for exclusive use and 2 are of a generic type. “Given the existing circumstances on the road and following the criterion of rationalization and optimization of public space, it is deemed appropriate not to authorize more parking reservations on the road,” the report concludes.

The precedent: five streets declared saturated in 2024

The decree refers to the Decree dated 30-04-2024 of the Department of Development, Environment, and Urban Services, which declared the streets Hermanos Pinzón, Juan de la Cosa, Romero de Córdoba, Santos Vilela, and Calderón de la Barca as saturated with exclusive-use parking reservations. Henceforth, it indicates, no renewals, transfers, or new authorizations shall be granted, and those reservations shall be gradually replaced by others of a generic type without time limitations, so that applicants for exclusive-use spaces can rotate among those available.

The regulatory framework invoked by the technical services includes:

• Royal Decree 1056/2014, of December 12, on the basic conditions for the issuance and use of parking cards for people with disabilities, whose Article 5 establishes a minimum of one reserved space for every forty spaces or fraction thereof in the main activity centers of urban nuclei.
• Order TMA 851/2021, of July 23, which develops the technical document on basic conditions of accessibility and non-discrimination for the access and use of urbanized public spaces, and which in its Article 35 reproduces that minimum ratio of one for every forty spaces.
• The Ordinance authorizing the creation of Parking reserved for vehicles transporting Disabled Persons, published in the BOCCE on July 3, 1997, which allows the delimitation of public domain zones for vehicles of people with a locomotor disability equal to or greater than 33% administratively recognized.
• The Regulatory Ordinance for Parking Reservations, stopping, and other uses, whose Article 15.1.e) provides for permanent ex officio reservations for specific groups and whose Article 17.2 requires a favorable report from the competent technical services.

The counselor’s competence derives from the Presidency Decree of July 8, 2025, published in the Extraordinary BOCCE No. 27 of 09.07.25.

Deadlines for appeal

The decree exhausts the administrative route. An optional appeal for reversal (recurso potestativo de reposición) may be filed against it before the same body that issued it within one month from the day following its notification or publication, in accordance with Article 112.1 of Law 39/2015. Alternatively, a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Ceuta within a maximum period of two months, according to Articles 123.1 of Law 39/2015 and 8.1 and 46 of Law 29/1998, of July 13. All this without prejudice to any other appeal that the interested parties deem appropriate.

The resolution directly affects the residents and parking card holders in the vicinity of Calderón de la Barca, who will not have a new generic space on a road already declared saturated, and consolidates the municipal criterion of replacing exclusive-use reservations with rotating spaces without time limits in the city center.

Source: Official Gazette of the Autonomous City of Ceuta, No. 6,688, of November 10, 2026, “Other Provisions and Agreements”, page 3821 (official reference: provision 747, file 58.355/26).