Sant Antoni's own town hall just put in writing what residents of s'Illa Plana had been arguing for months: the paperwork behind one of Ibiza's biggest pending nightclub expansions does not hold up.
The venue is the former Hotel Ibiza Corso complex, registered in the Balearic Insular Tourism Register as "Sala Corso" (code OE0074E), earmarked to reopen under the Lío Ibiza brand. In October 2025 the Comissió d'Ordenació Turística del Consell d'Eivissa approved an expansion of the site, citing a document known as APER 128/2002 as its legal foundation.
What did the town hall actually admit?
Resolución de Alcaldía número 5252, dated 7 July 2026, states plainly that APER 128/2002 is nothing more than a record of a change of ownership on hotel licence 320/1986, filed a decade ago. In the town hall's own words, the document "no se corresponde con licencia recreativa alguna," meaning it does not correspond to any recreational licence at all. A second reference sometimes floated for the site, APER 128/2022, turns out to belong to an unrelated clothing store on a different street entirely.
Strip away both documents and the only licence with any legal standing is from 1996: a 488 square metre dance hall authorized for 365 people, dancing only, no dinner-cabaret programming. The Insular Tourism Register still has the venue capped at 174 places, around 87 square metres. The expansion now moving through approval is 2,484 square metres, close to the roughly 2,500 square metre ceiling the site's own zoning allows.
"No se corresponde con licencia recreativa alguna."
How did the site get this far without a real permit?
This isn't the first attempt to formalize an oversized build here. In 2016, an operator filed to legalize an unauthorized two-floor renovation, 1,167.34 square metres across levels -1 and -2. Municipal technicians gave the applicant 10 days to supply a signed technical project, a Coastal Authority report and a Port Authority authorization. Nobody replied. The file was archived by tacit abandonment.
The site didn't sit empty in the meantime. Between 2016 and 2024, an operator ran a restaurant-spectacle concept called STK on the premises for roughly eight years. A municipal technical report from February 2026 concedes those were "actuaciones ejecutadas sin título habilitante," actions carried out without an enabling permit, the entire time.
Why does Ibiza's own planning law block this?
Ibiza's 2023 Pla General d'Ordenació Urbana, the island-wide urban plan, prohibits any new discotheque or dance-hall licence across the whole municipality. The Asociación de Vecinos de Illa Plana, Illa Grossa y Illa de Valerino argues that follows directly: since no genuine nightlife licence currently covers what Lío proposes, at this scale and with this programming, a new one would legally be required, and the PGOU forbids granting it. Residents have filed a recurso de reposición against the licensing decree and separately asked the town hall to declare the 1996 licence itself lifeless, given how long the site has operated outside its terms.
As of the town hall's own August admission, none of that has stopped the clock. The licence remains technically in force while the appeals sit unresolved.
What happens next?
The reconsideration appeal and the void-licence request are both still pending a municipal response. Nothing in the resolution automatically halts construction or opening plans, it only concedes that the document underpinning the expansion was never what it was presented as. That leaves the venue's opening timeline, and the neighborhood's next legal move, as the story to watch.
