MALLORCA TODAY - Puerto Pollensa's paid parking starts in June

Slightly delayed from the previously announced mid-May starting-point, paid parking will return to Puerto Pollensa from the start of June, the delay having been as a result of negotiations with the ports authority over the parking spaces near to the nautical club. These will be ceded to the town hall and its contractor in return for a percentage of the tariffs. Some 40% of street parking spaces will be included in the paid-parking scheme - from La Gola to the Bocchoris area and including the front and roads such as Joan XXIII. The green zone for residents' parking will, as previously announced, not come in until next year. For the regular blue zone, coming back in June, the rate will be a minimum of 50 cents up to a maximum of two euros, which will also determine a maximum length of parking time.

Meanwhile, the plan to partially pedestrianise the front is likely to be implemented in 2013, following an agreement struck between the town hall and the Council of Mallorca, assuming there is money to facilitate the scheme, which would result in the creation of a one-way traffic system.