Pinell de Solsonès submits the expansion of a poultry farm to public consultation

The Pinell de Solsonès City Council has opened for public consultation the environmental license application submitted by Josep Maria Pujantell Caelles to expand an existing poultry farm at the Sant Iscle estate, within the municipal district of Pinell de Solsonès. The announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 205, dated October 27, 2026, under the official reference BOP-2026_0_205_8825 (edict 8825, p. 1-1). The process opens a thirty-day period of public information and another ten-day period of neighborhood information for interested parties to submit allegations.

The procedure is governed by Article 41 of Law 20/2009, of December 4, on the prevention and environmental control of activities, which requires environmental license applications under the municipal intervention regime to be submitted for public consultation. The competent body is the plenary session of the city council of the municipality where the activity is located, in this case Pinell de Solsonès, a municipality in the Solsonès region.

The municipal document is dated October 20, 2026, and is signed by the acting mayor, Jaume Llorens Patau, with an electronic signature sent two days later, on October 21, and publication in the provincial gazette on October 27.

Two participation windows: thirty days and ten days

The announcement establishes two simultaneous calendars for consultation and allegation, both opening upon publication in the gazette:

• Public information: thirty days, addressed to any person or entity that considers itself affected by the activity.
• Neighborhood information: ten days, with the specific objective of gathering the opinion of the immediate neighborhood of the farm.
• Allegations: any deemed relevant may be submitted during the indicated periods.

The project and the rest of the documentation submitted by the applicant may be consulted at the Municipal Secretariat, during public office hours.

What the file says and what it does not detail

The announcement identifies the promoter, the estate, and the type of activity, but does not specify several relevant data points to assess the magnitude of the project:

• Promoter: Josep Maria Pujantell Caelles, in an individual capacity.
• Location: Sant Iscle estate, in the municipal district of Pinell de Solsonès.
• Activity: expansion of an already existing poultry farm, without the document detailing the livestock census, the final capacity, or the built-up area.
• Administrative reference: BOP-2026_0_205_8825, edict 8825 of the Official Gazette of the Province of Lleida no. 205.

The announcement also does not indicate whether the project requires an environmental impact assessment or what the municipal file number is, aspects that interested parties must consult directly at the council secretariat.

A common procedure in Solsonès

The publication coincides with other files for poultry and livestock farms that the provincial bulletin has disseminated in recent weeks in the Lleida district. On October 8, 2026, the Olius City Council submitted for public information, for twenty days, the project for the installation of a broiler poultry farm at the Puiggalí estate, polygon 2 plot 87, under file 486/2026. On October 19, the Ivorra City Council did the same with a broiler chicken farm in polygon 3, plot 244.

In both cases, the procedure falls under urban planning regulations —article 49 of the Revised Text of the Urban Planning Law and article 58 of Decree 64/2014—, while the Pinell de Solsonès file is processed via the environmental route of Law 20/2009, a regime that incorporates neighborhood information as its own step.

The news directly affects the residents of the Sant Iscle estate and the rural surroundings of Pinell de Solsonès, who have ten days to comment on the implementation, as well as the livestock sector of the region, pending whether the expansion establishes itself as a benchmark for poultry production in Solsonès. Environmental groups and local entities, on the other hand, have up to thirty days to examine the technical documentation at the municipal secretariat and submit objections.

Fuente: Official Bulletin of the Province of Lleida, no. 205, October 27, 2026, Local Administration - City Councils, p. 1-1 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_205_8825).