Algeciras opens public information period regarding the environmental license for a technological center

The Algeciras City Council has opened a twenty-working-day period for public information and hearing regarding the environmental license application submitted by SOL BAHÍAALGECIRAS S.L. for a technological center dedicated to advanced mobility after-sales, located at Carretera de Málaga, 55, in the town itself. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz no. 215, dated November 9, 2026, under file 32347/2026 and registration number 392.426. The period is calculated from the day following the publication of the edict in the provincial gazette.

The proceeding is processed as a municipal environmental license and is included in Annex I of Law 2/2026, on Environmental Management of Andalusia (LEGAM), as expressly stated in the edict. The opening of the public information and hearing process is agreed upon in application of Article 92.3 of the same regulation, which requires the file to be submitted for third-party review before the resolution. The announcement was signed on November 3, 2026, by the Fifth Deputy Mayor and Delegate for Urban Planning, Roads, Works, Education, and Environment, in the exercise of their delegated powers.

A revised basic project on Carretera de Málaga

The object of the application is the revised basic project for a technological center for advanced mobility after-sales, according to the literal designation appearing in the official announcement. The file has been completed with complementary documentation provided by the promoting company, a circumstance that the City Council expressly mentions as the immediate precursor to the opening of the period.

The declared location is number 55 of Carretera de Málaga, one of the main entrance roads to the city and a hub of commercial and service activity within the municipality of Algeciras.

Twenty working days and three consultation channels

The edict establishes the specific conditions of the process:

• A period of twenty working days for public information and hearing.
• Calculation starting from the day following the publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province.
• Standing for any natural or legal person to examine the technical project and submit allegations, documents, or environmental justifications.
• Simultaneous publication in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, on the edicts board of the Algeciras City Council, and on the transparency portal of the municipal electronic office.
• Consultation of the file in the Legally Relevant Information section, within the Urban Planning, Public Works, and Environment area, in the activities section.

During that period, interested parties may submit as many allegations, documents, or environmental justifications as they deem appropriate regarding the project and its possible effects on the environment.

The Andalusian environmental framework

Law 2/2026, on Environmental Management of Andalusia, regulates in its Annex I the activities subject to environmental prevention and control instruments, among which this project is categorized. Article 92.3 of the aforementioned law is the provision that enables and mandates the public information and hearing process that is now being activated.

The procedure corresponds to the City Council as the competent administration for the municipal environmental license, such that the final resolution regarding the installation will be conditioned by the result of this public exhibition phase and the assessment of the allegations registered.

The news has a direct impact on the residents and merchants in the vicinity of the Carretera de Málaga, who have twenty business days to comment on a project of urban and environmental dimension, and for the promoting company, whose execution schedule is subject to the closure of this procedure and the subsequent municipal resolution.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Cádiz, no. 215, November 9, 2026, Local Administration, page 21 (official reference: No. 392.426).