The reform of Palma’s Plaça d’Espanya will be extended until at least August 2024. This was stated this Wednesday by the deputy mayor and spokesperson for the municipal team, Belén Soto, after the extraordinary Junta de Govern of the City Council. The consistory, with the new government team at the head, recalls that the works of this space began in March 2023, already at the end of the last legislature, with the forecast to complete the reform within 12 months. Now, according to the councillor, the new deadline should be extended, depending on a first estimate, for a period of four months, so that, if there are no changes in this forecast, the works will be completed during the month of August 2024.

Soto defended the priority of converting the remodelling of this strategic point in the centre of Palma into “a useful project for the citizens, and fully operative and functional, which makes it necessary to correct the technical deficiencies that exist in this reform”. Furthermore, he announced that it will also be necessary to undertake a process of modification of these works with the intention of “resolving the problems and shortcomings that have been detected”. In the absence of completing the inventory of the actions that will have to be incorporated, currently in the technical assessment phase, the municipal spokeswoman highlighted the need to eliminate an old pipe located in calle Bisbe Perelló, once the existence of fibre cement has been confirmed.

These and other changes, such as the archaeological research work that will have to be carried out on the basis of the discovery of heritage remains, will result in an increase in the project budget, initially estimated at around 275,000 euros, although the overall quantification is still pending a definitive accounting that could vary in relation to this economic forecast.