The Provincial Council of Seville grants 5 million to eleven towns against flooding

The Provincial Council of Seville has definitively granted 5,006,232.77 euros to eleven municipalities with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants to finance flood control and prevention measures. The decision was adopted by Resolution 8175/2026, of November 3, by the Delegated Deputy of the Area of Supramunicipal Public Services, and published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Seville no. 216, of November 9, 2026 (CVE BOP-SE-2026-216003). The line is now closed, with three city councils excluded and one waiving its grant.

The call for applications was approved by Resolution 5765/2025, of August 19, which established the specific regulatory bases for this line of grants under a competitive process, applying the General Grant Ordinance of the Provincial Council of Seville (plenary agreement of February 23, 2023, BOP no. 104 of 05/09/2023) and Law 38/2003, of November 17, General Law on Grants.

The maximum amount for the call was increased to 5,500,000 euros. The initial funding was 2,000,000 euros, expanded by an optional additional amount of 3,500,000 euros approved by the Plenary in an ordinary session on March 26, 2026, within the budget modification file SUPE 02/2026, published in BOP no. 83, of May 4, 2026. The expenditure of this additional amount was authorized by Resolution no. 6137/2026, of September 1.

Eleven beneficiary municipalities

The definitive grant is distributed among eleven city councils, charged to budget applications 3201.45204.7620095 (2,000,000 euros) and 3201.45204.76200 (3,006,232.77 euros) of the 2026 budget:

• San Nicolás del Puerto (604 inhabitants): 500,000.00 euros, 20 points.
• El Ronquillo (1,453 inhabitants): 191,259.54 euros, 20 points.
• Las Navas de la Concepción (1,501 inhabitants): 491,603.63 euros, 20 points.
• El Pedroso (2,062 inhabitants): 499,754.72 euros, 20 points.
• Pruna (2,461 inhabitants): 359,975.00 euros, 20 points.
• Marinaleda (2,562 inhabitants): 500,000.00 euros, 20 points.
• Martín de la Jara (2,627 inhabitants): 483,326.46 euros, 20 points.
• La Puebla de los Infantes (2,949 inhabitants): 499,205.10 euros, 20 points.
• Badolatosa (3,058 inhabitants): 493,573.88 euros, 10 points.
• La Lantejuela (3,857 inhabitants): 493,767.22 euros, 10 points.
• Cazalla de la Sierra (4,626 inhabitants): 493,767.22 euros, 10 points.

All listed city councils, except for Cañada Rosal, submitted the approved construction projects within thirty business days, as required by the fourth base of the call.

Waiver and definitive exclusions

The Cañada Rosal City Council submitted, on July 22, 2026, a written express waiver of the grant that had been provisionally awarded to it by Resolution no. 2922/2026, of May 8, in the amount of 493,767.23 euros. The resolution considers it to have withdrawn and excludes it from the list of beneficiary entities.

The City Councils of Algámitas, Coripe, and Lora de Estepa are definitively excluded for failing to submit any documentation within the application correction period. The amount waived by Cañada Rosal, 493,767.23 euros, is not redistributed or prorated among the remaining beneficiaries: it remains as an unapplied surplus for this call, without prejudice to its possible future application in accordance with the eighth base.

Single payment and appeal process

The grant will be paid in a single payment following the notification of the final award resolution, considered as an advance payment to be justified, according to the thirteenth base. Beneficiaries are subject to the execution deadlines and the justification regime of the seventh and fourteenth bases, as well as the reimbursement regime of the fifteenth base; the grants are compatible with other subsidies from different administrations for the same purpose, but not with those from previous editions of the Provincial Council itself.

Against the announcement, which ends the administrative route, an optional appeal for reversal may be filed within one month, or a contentious-administrative appeal before the Contentious-Administrative Section of the Court of First Instance of Seville within two months, both counting from the day following publication. The resolution is signed by the Secretary General, Fernando Fernández-Figueroa Guerrero, by delegation of Resolution no. 1221/2026, of March 3.

The publication closes a process opened more than a year ago and leaves four towns that aspired to finance drainage and prevention infrastructure without aid: the works must now be executed among the eleven awarded municipalities, mostly towns in the Sierra and the Campiña with fewer than 5,000 residents.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Seville, no. 216, of November 9, 2026, Local Administration, page 14 (official reference: BOP-SE-2026-216003).