Why did the council suspend its own permit?

On September 18, 2026, the Ajuntament d'Eivissa ordered a precautionary suspension of the building permits it had granted in February 2026 to Turismo Balear, S.A. for Lío's relocation into the former Hotel Corso in s'Illa Plana, according to elDiario.es. Municipal technical services found the project exceeds the maximum occupancy thresholds set under regional Law 2/2020, the same pandemic-era statute the project relied on to bypass Ibiza's ordinary planning rules. The freeze follows an appeal the s'Illa Plana neighborhood association filed with the regional Consell d'Eivissa on July 3, 2026, and a municipal technical report dated July 22 that confirmed the breach.

"La ley se tiene que aplicar para todos." The law must apply to everyone. Alberto Sánchez, spokesperson for the s'Illa Plana neighborhood association

Lío maintains it operates in "full and absolute compliance" with applicable rules.

How did a club ban turn into a club permit?

The contradiction residents are pointing at predates the Corso suspension. In December 2023, under mayor Rafael Triguero, Ibiza approved a Special Port Plan that expressly bans discotheques, dance halls and party venues in Marina Ibiza, the port district where Lío, then still known as El Divino, had operated for years. That ban effectively forced the club out of its historic home. Just over two years later, the same town hall issued the Corso permit under Law 2/2020, a statute meant to speed pandemic-era tourism recovery by letting projects skip the height, occupancy and buildability caps that would otherwise apply, even though Ibiza's own 2023 general urban plan bans new discotheques citywide. La Voz de Ibiza put it plainly on August 11: the same activity, banned meters away in one direction, waved through in the other.

What happens next?

The suspension holds until the Consell d'Eivissa rules on the residents' appeal; Lío had been aiming to open at Corso in 2027. The nightlife trade group AEON has separately demanded the council publish the traffic and evacuation studies behind the project, arguing the public has no way to judge the impact of a venue the scale of a macro-club moving into a residential pocket of s'Illa Plana. Neither the council nor Turismo Balear has said whether, or when, revised plans will bring the project back under the legal occupancy caps.