The Consell de Mallorca has issued a second unfavorable report on the chicken macro-farm project that the company Avícola Son Perot has proposed to build in Sineu.
According to this second report, the island institution considers that in the project presented “It is necessary to justify the compatibility of use of the new activity proposal with the activities and uses currently existing on the plots” close to where the macrofarm is proposed to be installed, “especially with regard to residential uses.” In addition, it warns that “the definition of fencing, lighting and the impact on the road system needs to be incorporated or expanded.”
In detail, the Consell has considered “Insufficient” the Landscape Integration Study of the Project and has proposed completing it with the description of the essential characteristics of the project plot, with its main components and landscape values, on the one hand; and, on the other hand, with the analysis of the surrounding landscape, all to protect the “high, very high or extraordinary” degree of landscape valuation that the forest part of the plots has.
Furthermore, the island institution has stated in this second report that “compliance with standard 22 of the Mallorca Island Territorial Plan (PTIM) in relation to the landscape integration of buildings and facilities remains to be justified.”
Well, we must remember that standard 22 of the PTIM determines what the maximum height of buildings can be, what façade and roof materials and finishes are allowed, and what the interior and exterior fencing must be, so that they adjust to the nature and uses of the land and traditional construction systems, for correct landscape integration.
Also, the Consell has pointed out that “mobility needs to be justified generated” by the Sineu macrofarm project and “the impact on the island road system” that it may generate.
In relation to the latter, the Consell has recalled that “the corresponding authorization will have to be processed according to the provisions of Law 5/1990, of May 24, on roads in the Autonomous Community of the Balearic Islands.”
Finally, the insular institution has indicated that, in the event that the activity affects Natural Areas of Special Interest with a High Level of Protection (AANP), Risk Prevention Areas (APR) or Territorial Protection Areas (APT), it will be necessary “guarantee the collection and purification of waste generated by intensive livestock activities.”
It must also ensure the maintenance of the existing forest mass, including the renewal of dead specimens by at least the same number of young specimens of the same species, and those crops that are intended to maintain natural populations of animals”; and, finally, “the prior report of the administration competent in environmental matters.”
Already on September 14, the president of the PP Mallorca and the Consell, Llorenç Galmésmet in Sineu with the mayors who are spokespersons for the popular formation in the towns of Pla and with the local board of the municipality itself to discuss the construction of the macro poultry farm of 750,000 chickens in this town.
The president assured that the PP opposes the development of the project because “we are here to improve the lives of Mallorcans and to support them in their demands.”
In this sense, he defended that “there is no other way of “doing politics rather than listening closely to the problems.” In his opinion, these facilities “would have a negative impact both on the well-being of the neighbors and on the territory in which they are established and in this sense, he recalled the existence of negative and unfavorable reports from the institutions, specifically the Ministry of Agriculture, the Sineu City Council and the Consell de Mallorca.
