Ibiza film permit filings that actually land on the mayor’s desk.

You file a dossier with the Parc Natural office through the Consell d’Eivissa environmental channel. Lead time is 14–21 working days — not the 3–5 days they’ll quote informally. Flamingo nesting closes parts of the salt-pans April through June, and that closure rarely flexes. We build your shoot calendar around the biology, not the other way around. Submit the dossier clean the first time and the sign-off comes back clean.

Yes, for a 30–90 minute dawn window — but it needs a 21+ working-day filing with Ajuntament de Sant Josep, Demarcación de Costas en Illes Balears, and Parc Natural. Costas is the third signature that catches most producers out — a dossier routed through the town hall alone tends to come back rejected. We get a Guardia Civil presence on the access road so the yoga classes don’t walk through frame.

All of Ibiza’s airspace sits inside the AENA Ibiza CTR, so drone clearance comes from AESA — a town-hall permit doesn’t cover the flight on its own. You need AESA operator registration, a registered UAS, specific-category authorisation (typically STS-ES or a PDRA-ES route for commercial coastal work), and coordination with AENA Ibiza. Lead time 21 working days, honest. Es Vedrà carries further restrictions as a protected natural area on top of the CTR layer.

Yes, but the route is different. Ajuntament d’Eivissa files the municipal occupation permit; Consell d’Eivissa’s heritage office signs off on the specific walls, bastions and bastion-top terraces you’re dressing or lighting. Expect 14 working days minimum, sometimes longer if your shot list includes the cathedral surrounds. No open flames, no anchor points into stone. Early morning before the cruise coaches arrive is usually the only window that works.

Yes, materially. Every authority on the stack — Ajuntament, Parc Natural, Costas, Consell heritage — applies separate documentation requirements for commercial work versus editorial. Commercial means a client campaign; editorial means unbranded portfolio work. Filing commercial scope under an editorial declaration risks having the permit pulled on shoot day. We flag the right route from the first call.

Partially. A private finca in Santa Gertrudis, San Rafael or Santa Eulària skips the municipal-occupation layer and the heritage layer. You still need Ajuntament notification for vehicle movements on public roads, Guardia Civil coordination if trucks block a lane, and AESA if you fly. A drone-plus-coastal-road-plus-finca campaign can mean three offices even when the shoot itself is behind a private gate.

21 working days minimum for any closure on the coastal carreteras, including the Sant Josep–Es Cubells stretch. The filing routes through the Ajuntament, the Consell d’Eivissa roads office if the carretera is a Consell road, and Guardia Civil confirms the window and officers. Closures run 30–45 minutes per take, rolled every 20 minutes during a window. The dossier has to be clean — incomplete paperwork gets the window pulled the morning of.

Formentera is a separate stack — Consell Insular de Formentera as the single window, plus the Formentera side of Parc Natural de Ses Salines covering Illetes, Llevant and Espalmador, and Costas separately. Lead time 14–21 working days. We routinely file both islands in parallel so your crew can ferry over at 07:15 and shoot both islands on one retainer. The ferry from Eivissa port to La Savina is 30 minutes on Balearia or Trasmapi.