Balaguer Council opens public information for a 2,000-head pig farm

The Os de Balaguer City Council has admitted for processing the license requested by LANSER 2019 SL to build a pig fattening farm with a capacity of 2,000 head on plot 126 of polygon 6 of the municipality. The agreement was issued by the mayor, Estefania Rufach Fontova, on November 4, 2026, and was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida number 215, dated November 10, 2026, with the official reference BOP-2026_0_215_9356. The file is subject to public inspection for twenty days.

The published text is an announcement from the Os de Balaguer City Council, headed by the mayoral agreement, which resolves in three points: the admission of the application for processing, the opening of the public exhibition process, and the environmental classification of the activity. The promoting company is identified with NIF B25852948, and the action is described as the construction of a pig fattening farm on land within the municipal district of Os de Balaguer, in the region of La Noguera.

Twenty days to examine the file and submit claims

The public information period is twenty days and is disseminated through three simultaneous channels, according to the municipal agreement:

• Publication of the announcement in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida.
• Exhibition on the municipal notice board and the City Council’s e-board.
• Forwarding of the file for a report from the Department of Agriculture, which is competent in matters of distances.

During this period, persons who consider themselves interested parties may examine the project at the Secretariat of the Os de Balaguer City Council and submit any claims they deem appropriate. The announcement does not specify any other consultation channel or participation quota.

A project for 2,000 fattening pigs classified as Annex III

The license corresponds to a fattening farm with a capacity of 2,000 pigs. The project classifies it as an Annex III, section 11.1.b.ii activity, a regime that requires the incorporation of the corresponding environmental technical report before resolving the environmental processing. The municipal agreement explicitly states this: the environmental technical report pertaining to an activity of this classification must be added to the file.

The documentation describes a new installation, not an expansion: it involves the construction of facilities on plot 126 of polygon 6, without the announcement detailing built areas, the number of warehouses, or the planned investment.

Waste and distances to other farms, the sensitive points

The aspects highlighted by the announcement itself are the management of slurry and the regulatory distances. According to the text:

• There is a transmission from the Department of Agriculture dated 01/04/2026 regarding two reports on the Livestock Waste Management Plan, identified with the code IN100301.
• The project justifies that there are no pig farms within 1,000 meters of the new farm.
• It also justifies that there are no extended-distance farms within 2,000 meters.

These two verifications are what usually center the objections in intensive pig projects, along with the waste management plan, which determines how and where the slurry generated by the 2,000 head is applied.

The same issue 215 of the BOP, from November 10, includes another livestock procedure in the district: the Juncosa City Council submits for public information, for 30 business days, the environmental license of a livestock waste composting plant of AGROAVÍCOLA SANTIAGO, S.L. in polygon 6, plot 179, processed under regional file 1046/2026 of the Consell Comarcal de les Garrigues.

Why it is relevant

The decision of Os de Balaguer comes at a time of growing pressure on the intensive pig model in the Ponent regions, where the concentration of farms and the management of slurry are subjects of neighborhood protest and administrative control. With the admission for processing, the project of LANSER 2019 SL enters the phase in which any affected party can stop or condition it: the result will depend on the objections submitted within twenty days and the technical environmental report that is still to be incorporated into the file.

Fuente: Official Bulletin of the Province of Lleida, no. 215, November 10, 2026, Local Administration - City Councils, p. 1 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_215_9356).