Road expansion cancelled

THE enlargement project for the road linking Soller and Deia has finally been can ‐celled 30 years after its launch.

Work had been on hold since 1995 when the compa‐ny in charge went bust, since when the road has sat largely unchanged. Although the project was not completed, the island authorities still ef‐fectively owned the rights of more than 62,000 square me‐tres of rustic land that had been expropriated from 82 private plots. This has led to ongoing land registry prob‐lems for the owners of the af‐fected land, which will now end as the plots will be offi‐cially returned to them.

A statement issued by the

Island Council of Mallorca states that the institution “no longer needs the occupied land and is not planning to carry out any project of this size,” except for the surfacing of the stretch between Sóller and Llucalcari. The enlarge‐ment of the Ma‐10 was met with fierce opposition by resi‐dents when it was an ‐nounced back in 1992, with the company only able to complete the first stage ‐ two kilometres from Soller to Deia ‐ before declaring bankruptcy three years later.