The Balearic High Court (TSJIB) has rejected a claim for almost €12 million brought against the regional government over land in Roca Llisa, the residential estate in Santa Eulalia often described as the most expensive in Ibiza.
The company Parque Avda Dalí SL was seeking €11.92 million in compensation because two of its plots lost their status as building land under a 2008 regional law. That law, passed to protect the islands’ landscape, declassified urban land in four areas of Ibiza: Roca Llisa–Cap Martinet, Cala d’Hort, Punta Pedrera and Benirràs. Part of Roca Llisa was folded into the protected natural area of Cap Llibrell–Cap Martinet.
Filed too late
The court did not rule on whether the company was entitled to compensation. It dismissed the case because the claim came too late. The firm sold the two plots in February 2020 but kept the right to claim for the loss, and it only lodged its request with the regional government on 12 February 2020, almost twelve years after the law took effect. The regional environment department had already turned the request down as out of time in April 2021.
The company can still try to appeal.
A costly law
Even so, Roca Llisa has proved expensive for the public purse. The regional government has lost 13 court cases over land on the estate and has paid out almost €46 million, the largest single award being €10.32 million. Across all the areas affected by the 2008 law, compensation payments have reached around €370 million, according to the local press.
Sources: Periódico de Ibiza y Formentera, La Voz de Ibiza.
