Palma executes the ruling that annuls four areas of the General Plan

The Plenary of the Palma City Council, in an extraordinary session held on November 3, 2026, has approved the execution of Judgment 346/2026 of the High Court of Justice of the Balearic Islands (TSJIB), which declares several sections of the structural differentiated document of the Palma General Plan null and void. The agreement is published in the Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands (BOIB) no. 142, of November 7, 2026, section I, page 62469, with reference 11209, and bears the signature of the general secretary of the Plenary, Nicolau Conti Fuster, dated November 4, 2026.

The judgment, issued on June 3, 2026, by the contentious-administrative Chamber of the TSJIB, resolves ordinary proceeding 518/2023 filed by VIBELBA, S.L.U. and AGROPECUARIA MALLORQUINA, S.A. against the Plenary agreement of April 28, 2023, which definitively approved the differentiated document, published in BOIB no. 71 of May 30, 2023. The municipal Legal Services communicated the finality of the resolution to the General Plan Office on September 15, 2026, and the councilor for the Area of Finance, Contracting, and Heritage issued resolution no. 22668, also on September 15, 2026, so that the corresponding department would execute what was resolved by the judiciary.

The four annulled areas

The municipal agreement annuls, from all the normative and planning documentation of the general plan, the following determinations:

• The General Infrastructure System SGIF/A/P 36-01, water reservoir of Son Vida, regarding cadastral plot 07040A007000840000RQ.
• The category of Forestry Natural Interest Area Peri-urban Park (AIN/FO/PP) for portions of the Son Quint estates, replaced by Forestry Natural Interest Area Other Forest Zones (AIN/FO/ZB).
• The category of Landscape Interest Zone of Son Puigdorfila Vell (ZIP-PV), on cadastral plot 07040A004000360000RR, replaced by Rural Land of General Regime (SRG).
• The qualification of sports equipment EQ2b/DP for a portion of approximately 8,500 m² located between Vinagrella street and Son Vida square, regarding cadastral plot 5319311DD6851G.

In this last case, the City Council indicates that Prescription 83.6 of Annex II of the definitive approval document, already in force, eliminates the local systems of equipment and open spaces proposed in map O.04, such that the indicative equipment is not applicable and the majority global residential use of ZOU/36-02 Son Vida governs, with the T4a qualification of the current detailed planning, the PGOU98.

Corrections in files, maps, and zonings

The execution requires the removal of file SGIF/A/P 36-01 from Book III, Volume VIII, of the planning and management files for general systems, and the removal of its graphic representation from plans O.02, O.03, O.03.2, O.03.3, O.04, O.06, and O.07. The change of category to AIN-FO-ZB affects plans O.03, O.03.1, O.03.2, and O.03.3.

The transition from ZIP-PV to SRG has two additional effects: the lands change from Ecosystem Services Area to Buffer Zone on plan O.11 of green infrastructure, and from Lighting Zone E1 to Lighting Zone E2 on plan O.19 of lighting zoning, in coherence with the loss of the status of protected rural land.

The City Council emphasizes that the list of affected documents strictly complies with the judicial resolution, without incorporating new determinations or altering the planning beyond what has been expressly annulled. The corrections will be integrated into the regulatory and organizational documentation within the framework of the drafting of the Recast Text of the General Plan, which must reflect the current planning resulting from the execution.

Notifications, publication, and appeals

The agreement provides for notifying the resolution to the appealing party, publishing it in the BOIB, and communicating it to the involved municipal areas:

• Urban Planning and Management Service
• Urban Information Service
• Building Permits and Activities Service
• Urban Discipline Service
• Municipal Legal Services
• Municipal Innovation Institute, for the purposes provided by the Real Estate Cadastre Law

Notification, along with proof of publication, will also be provided to the Insular Council of Mallorca and the Government of the Balearic Islands. Against the resolution, which ends the administrative route, a contentious-administrative appeal may be filed before the contentious-administrative Chamber of the TSJIB within a term of two months starting from the day after publication, in accordance with Article 114 of Law 39/2015 and Articles 45 and following of Law 29/1998.

The decision has a direct impact on the owners of the affected plots and on the layout of the rural land on the periphery of Palma: the peri-urban park of Son Quint loses this status, Son Puigdorfila Vell ceases to be a protected landscape zone, and the former water reservoir of Son Vida disappears from the general infrastructure network, while the sports facility of Son Vida is rendered void and the tourist classification T4a from the 1998 planning returns to effect.

Source: Official Gazette of the Balearic Islands, no. 142, November 7, 2026, sec. I, p. 62469 (official reference: 11209).