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Old 11-11-2014, 10:20
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The possible development of the L'Ullal wetlands is still making the newspapers. This from the DDM, translated by Google here :- Una promotora delimita la zona húmeda de l´Ullal para construir un hotel de lujo - Diario de Mallorca

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A developer defines the wetland l'Ullal to build a luxury hotel.

The company claims compensation twelve million to Government for having canceled the ART building permitting these lands Moll

J. Frau The developer SL Ullal Park has begun work on the delineation of the wetland l'Ullal in Port de Pollenca , with the intention of preparing the ground for that in a yet undetermined future, can run the project construction of a five star hotel in the area located at the forefront of Moll'pollencí'.

In fact, that company, owns fifty percent of the land in l'Ullal, currently classified as rustic, introduced in early 2013 the project of building a luxury property in the vicinity of the wetland would occupy 14,000 cuadraros meters. However, the inclusion of l'Ullal in Hydrological Plan and the declassification of land aborted the operation.

Remember that the Mallorca Spatial Plan (TMP) included an area Territorial Restructuring (ART) consisting of the transfer to this area of Puerto Pollensa which building was planned in the Cala Carbo, in the same municipality. However, in the last term governed by the compact urban Barter said progress was canceled and the land described as rustic l'Ullal.

The developer said it had acquired the land when ART was not yet eliminated the Spatial Plan, which the company claims the Government about twelve million compensation for the economic loss caused by the declassification of the solar property.

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fonts land developer owns this newspaper explained that, initially, the wet zone to delimit covered an area of 30,000 square meters, although the general direction of Water Resources has now imposed a boundary spanning 45,000 square feet of wetland in l'Ullal. During the scoping process, the developer plans to recover those most degraded areas of the wetland. "It's an area full of rubble where work remains and traces of red palm weevil infected accumulate" they say.

The company hopes to reach an agreement with the Government and the municipality of Pollença so that in the future, the construction of the hotel complex is allowed, but is aware that, at present, this operation is not possible due to the l'Ullal protection in various urban planning.

In this sense, the mayor of Pollença, Tomeu Encrypt, last year, when the hotel project was presented, had expressed interest in re-evaluate this area of ​​Port, he added yesterday that "it is rural land and is very difficult there can build something. " In his view, the construction of a hotel would be a significant modification in the Spatial Plan, it does not allow any construction POOT area, as is the case.
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Once again some evil, twisted person is responsible for the poisoning death of a dog. This from the UH Nuevo caso de envenenamiento de un perro en el Port de Pollença » Part Forana » Noticias » Ultima Hora Mallorca, translated by Google.

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This Tuesday has occurred in Port de Pollença, on the beach Llenaire, another death of a dog poisoning. In this area there is a pet-enabled area and season upon completion are allowed to bring animals along the beach.

A resident of the coastal walking with the dog on the beach, where, as indicated, after starting the walk the dog approached the owner with tremors thereupon transferred him to the vet, which indicated a possible case of poisoning .

The Councillor for Environment, Maria Buades, said had no record of the case but had no information about it as it was in the hands of Nature Protection Service (Seprona) Civil Guard.

Recall that in June 2013, and two dogs by poisoning deaths occurred.

At the time the City Council provisionally closed Pollença enabled pet area.

The Consistory opened an investigation but found no traces of poison.
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Extremely sad.
There really are some sick individuals around.
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Following on from comments made on the http://www.forum.puertopollensa.com/...line-pp-5.html thread re increasing rents, this has been published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin:-

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Rental prices in the Balearics went up once again last month by 1,9 percent.
The rental price per square metre now stands at 7,38 euros, according to a report revealed yesterday by a real estate website. As it stands, the Balearic region was the area where prices rose the most in Spain. The average price all over the country stands at 6,77 euros per square metre.
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This is reported here :- Cierran de forma preventiva la playa para mascotas de Pollença tras el envenenamiento de un perro » Part Forana » Noticias » Ultima Hora Mallorca.


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Preemptively close the beach Pollensa pet after dog poisoning.

The City Council of Pollença closed preemptively l Beach Pet Llenaire after poisoning a dog last week.

It is the third poisoning in a year.

Llenaire beach and had to be sealed in the summer of 2013 for the deaths of two dogs in the months of June and July, shortly after an enabled specifically for pet bathing area was created.

The death of the poisoned animals beach Llenaire caused alarm among pet owners who had responded massively to enable the first beach in the town pet.

The autopsy of the second dog died after spending the day at the beach Llenaire in July 2013, confirmed that he had ingested a poison used to kill snails and slugs.
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Following on from comments made on the http://www.forum.puertopollensa.com/...line-pp-5.html thread re increasing rents, this has been published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin:-
Does anyone know how commercial leases are structured in Mallorca? Are they usually short-term - less than 5 years; or do you get longer leases with provision for rent reviews? Presumably also no equivalent to the security of tenure provisions of the English Landlord and Tenant Acts.

I ask because it's easy to blame landlords but if there is a long lease with no rent reviews in the term, there is inevitably a big jump in rent at the end of the lease. If the rent is their only income, you can't blame them for trying to catch up when they can
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I have also posted this on the Tango/Can Josep thread.

It has always seemed crazy to me that landlords would rather have vacant buildings and no income rather than charge a reasonable rent and at least have some money coming in.
That said i have been told by many here in the Port that rents can only legally be increased when a contract is due for renewal and then only by no more than the rate of inflation, i am not sure if this is true but if it is are these landlords breaking the law?.
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I have also posted this on the Tango/Can Josep thread.

It has always seemed crazy to me that landlords would rather have vacant buildings and no income rather than charge a reasonable rent and at least have some money coming in.
That said i have been told by many here in the Port that rents can only legally be increased when a contract is due for renewal and then only by no more than the rate of inflation, i am not sure if this is true but if it is are these landlords breaking the law?.
Not necessarily. If the original contract was for (say) five or ten years, even an inflation linked increase would be around 20% or 37.5% (based on UK RPI figures). So although they are just 'catching up' it is actually quite a steep increase. And you can argue that the tenant has had the 'benefit' of a rent that is still at 2004, 2009 rates for the last few years.

If that is the case, it could be cheaper to look at alternative locations if the current 'market rent' is lower than the inflation linked rent on the existing premises. But then you have to factor in relocation and fit-out costs as well, plus loss of goodwill in a new location.

It has always interested me to see that the majority of commercial properties are let or sold privately in PP, rather than through agents, as is the case in the UK. Many years ago...Oh, well, that ship has sailed!
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Ah!! so it's not just increased by the inflation rate at the time, it mounts up year on year, thanks for explaining .
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Good news for home improvers in the north.

Leroy Merlin abrirá su tercera tienda de Mallorca a finales de 2015 en Manacor - Diario de Mallorca

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French company Leroy Merlin improve your home, will open in late 2015 which will be its third store in Mallorca after outlets Palma and Marratxí. The store, which will have a floor area of 6,000 square meters and have more than 200 parking spaces, is located at the confluence of the MA-15 road (the entrance to the city from Palma) and commercial satellite, alongside future service polygons.

According to Leroy Merlin, the new center of Manacor could create a workforce of approximately one hundred workers "would enhance the economic revitalization of the area with the creation of 50 indirect jobs." This new opening is part of the expansion plan of the company in Spain, with the opening of 22 outlets in the next five years and an investment of 370 million.
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Good news for the economy and local jobs then.
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Following on from comments made on the http://www.forum.puertopollensa.com/...line-pp-5.html thread re increasing rents, this has been published in the Majorca Daily Bulletin:-
A lot of people in UK don't realise that Pollenca isn't like some parts of Spain as far as renting or buying is concerned
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This from the Majorca Daily Bulletin


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Price of Balearic properties set to fall next year.


Palma.—The average price of a property in the Balearics is set to fall by 2,2 percent this year compared with 2013. While prices are set to go up on a national level by 1,4 percent- the first rise since the “property bubble burst” of 2008- prices in the Balearics will continue to decline, which is set to attract more investors.
Property prices are also set to go down in Navarra (-1,5), Cantabria (-1,3) and Basque country (-0,9).
On the other end of the scale are the Valencia Community, Murcia and Galicia, with prices in the first two expected to grow by over three percent.
According to the same report, this year’s increase in prices is seen as a result of recent demand. Investing in real estate hoping to cash in at a later stage seems to be attracting a large number of investors, 16 percent of them are foreigners
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Not a news report as such but an interesting post on Andrew Ede's blog about the decrease in fishermen and boats on the island, alcudiapollensa: Formerly Quaint: Mallorca's fishermen


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"Quaint fishing village." This is a description beloved of the brochure talkers and of the website traders in cliché. The description is at its most clichéd when it refers to yesteryear and is prefaced with "formerly a". It is at its most inaccurate when it insists that the quaint fishing village still exists. The fishing villages are all former. There is no such thing as a quaint fishing village in Mallorca any longer.

Old photos from the turn of the last century will confirm the one-time evidence of this quaintness and of the fishermen's trade. The quaintness persisted for many a decade. The 1960s did for it. Coastal settlements which could once legitimately claim such quaintness had it concreted over and turned into a living but dying museum piece amidst the rush towards so-called "balearisation", a term of inherent contradiction as it alludes to an orgy of construction that was simultaneously de-construction. Can Picafort was once a quaint fishing village. Even Magalluf has been described thus (less accurately as there were barely enough dwellings to constitute a tiny hamlet let alone a village).

The old-timer fishermen now long into retirement are honoured annually at fiestas to celebrate Sant Pere, aka Saint Peter, the patron saint of fishermen. These ancients of the sea accompany the image of the saint to the water's edge and watch misty-eyed as it floats and bobs on the bay as though it were in supplication for a return to the days of quaintness, abundance and simplicity.

Last year, they held a secondhand fair in Puerto Pollensa. Its purpose was to assist in raising funds for the local fishermen. The "confraria" (brotherhood or perhaps guild) of fishermen had been stung by changes to ways in which charges were made for storage. Some fishermen were having to consider giving up.

In 2011, the fishermen in Puerto Alcúdia pulled out of the resort's annual boat and sepia fair. They objected to restaurants buying sepia at lower cost from wholesalers and then using it during the fair. They argued that their traditional catch, part of the reason for the fair in the first place, should be honoured and so paid for.

These two examples are just two of many which have become the fishermen's lot in more recent times. Costs, competition, quotas, EU inspectors, decline in boatbuilding, trawling, recreational fishing - they have all conspired to make the fishermen's lot a less than happy one. Quaintness was never this complicated.

At the time in 2012 that the controversy in Puerto Pollensa started to brew over storage charges, the brotherhood was celebrating its centenary. It comprised twenty-two members; the number may now be lower. There are ten brotherhoods around the coast of Mallorca. The total number of professional fishermen who belong to them is 400, and their number is declining along with the number of boats.

It is difficult to place a number on how many fishermen there once were, but as an indication, in 1940 there were over 1,500 boats in the Balearics, the majority of them in Mallorca. As there are nowadays said to be only 190 boats supporting 400 fishermen, one can guess that there were at least 3,000 fishermen in 1940, over a half of them in Mallorca. By 1986, a census of fishermen and of types of boat and types of fishing gave some hard data. In Mallorca there were 1,052 fishermen, a third of them based in Palma, and with Cala Ratjada and Colonia Sant Jordi having been numbers two and three on the list respectively (there were only 26 fishermen in Puerto Pollensa even then).

For twenty years, the fisherman population was in slow decline, but then came economic crisis and a hastening of this decline. Since 2010, the number of boats in Mallorca has been reduced by a quarter to the 190 there are today.

By contrast with this fall, there are now over 50,000 licences for recreational fishing in the Balearics. It might be thought that recreational activity wouldn't affect the professional fisherman, but it does in terms of reducing stock. Moreover, there are reckoned to be at least an equivalent number of unlicensed fishermen to the 400 brotherhood members.

The condition of the Mallorcan fisherman is not terminal but equally it isn't very healthy. The new (and first) Balearics fishing law will permit fishermen to legally be able to take tourists - up to four or five at a time - on fishing trips. It is a move which might offer some salvation through diversification, though as yet the legal niceties are not all known, such as those to do with liability and insurance: further costs therefore. Still, it is a step in the right direction, but one trusts that when it comes to the attention of the brochure talkers, they don't try and brand it as quaint.
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THE MUNICIPALITY OF POLLENÇA BUY FILM CHAPTER!!!

All the matches with municipal representation have agreed to buy the building from the Chapter cinema located on the corner of the Plaza Mayor with Calle Antonio Maura, in the historic centre of Pollença.

The acquisition of the property cost 850,000 euros. Currently, the property is in the family Salas Pons, heirs of Rafael Salas Llompart, Pollença and pioneer of the cinema industry in the Balearic Islands.

The old cinema has about 460 seats spread over 260 in stalls and 200 in amphitheatre, with an area of about 230 square metres. This capability can be modified with the configuration of the seats more or less dense, this gives you the opportunity to enjoy a complementary room to the courtyard of the cloister of Santo Domingo.

The goal is to transform the old cinema into a new cultural facility of public management in the heart of the village to provide an outlet for the significant number of cultural activities, from theatre, cinema and music, taking place in Pollença. Currently, the city has a lack of spaces covered by developing this type of activities.Translated by Bing
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