Allegations regarding the occupation of 3,839 meters of cañada real (royal livestock route) in Ágreda

The Territorial Environmental Service of Soria, under the Regional Government of Castilla y León, has opened for public consultation the occupation of 3,839 square meters of land in the Cañada Real a Aragón, as it passes through the municipality of Ágreda. The authorization, for a term of ten years, is requested by Parque Eólico Sierra del Madero S.A. to renew the occupation of access roads and cabling trenches for its wind installation. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Soria no. 128, dated Monday, November 9, 2026, in the Autonomous Administration section under official reference 2120 (page 4042).

The procedure is based on Article 14 of Law 3/1995, of March 23, on Livestock Routes, a provision that requires authorizations for the occupation of public livestock domain lands to be submitted for public consultation. The regulation protects these traditional passage strips and requires that any private use of them be subject to prior examination and a period of public exhibition before being resolved.

The file affects livestock land in the municipality of Ágreda, in the province of Soria, and does not refer to a new installation, but rather to the continuity of existing uses: the access roads and the trenches through which the wind farm’s cabling runs. The announcement does not detail other uses of the livestock route beyond these two elements.

File Data

• Affected area: 3,839 square meters of land on a livestock route.
• Authorization term: 10 years.
• Livestock route: Cañada Real a Aragón, as it passes through the municipality of Ágreda.
• Applicant: Parque Eólico Sierra del Madero S.A.
• Purpose: renewal of the occupation of access roads and cabling trenches of the Sierra del Madero Wind Farm.
• Instructing body: Territorial Environmental Service of Soria.
• Announcement date: Soria, September 23, 2026, signed by the Head of the Territorial Service, José Antonio Lucas Santolaya.

Where to consult and how to appeal

The file may be examined at the offices of the Territorial Environmental Service of Soria, at Calle Linajes 1, fourth floor, where interested parties may also submit any documents they consider relevant. The documentation is also available on the website of the Regional Government of Castilla y León, at the link https://jcyl.es/informacion-publica-ambiental.

The period for submitting allegations is one month, starting from the day following the publication on the website. The writings must be addressed to the Territorial Environmental Service of Soria. Therefore, the count does not begin from the printed edition of the gazette, but from the dissemination of the announcement on the regional portal.

Appearing does not grant interested party status

The announcement specifies that appearing in this procedure does not, in itself, grant the status of an interested party in the file. It does, however, recognize the right to obtain a reasoned response, which may be common for all allegations that raise substantially identical issues.

This clarification delimits the scope of the procedure: any citizen or group may submit observations, but intervention as an interested party requires proving the ownership of rights or legitimate interests in the proceedings. In any case, the allegations are incorporated into the file before the resolution by the Territorial Environmental Service of Soria.

The announcement comes at a time of wind energy expansion in the rural areas of Soria, where wind farms share territory with livestock tracks (cañadas, cordeles, and veredas) protected by Law 3/1995. For the residents of Ágreda, livestock farmers, and conservation associations, the one-month deadline opens the final window to question the occupied area, the layout of the access roads, or the conditions of the authorization before a land occupation that will last a decade is resolved.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Soria, no. 128, November 9, 2026, Autonomous Administration, page 4042 (official reference: 2120).