Pinofranqueado opens 30 days of public information regarding its fire prevention ordinance

The Pinofranqueado City Council (Cáceres) has opened the public information process for the municipal ordinance for the prevention of forest fires in the peri-urban area of its municipal district. The Plenary, in an extraordinary and urgent session held on September 18, 2026, agreed to its provisional approval, and the announcement is published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Cáceres on Thursday, September 24, 2026, number 0183, page 21949, with official reference BOP-2026-4437.

The agreement is adopted in compliance with the provisions of Article 49 of Law 7/1985, of April 2, Regulating the Bases of the Local Regime, which requires local ordinances to be submitted for public information before their final approval. The announcement was signed in Pinofranqueado on September 21, 2026, by the mayor-president, Jose Luis Azabal Hernández.

Thirty days to examine and object

The file remains open to the public for a period of thirty days, beginning on September 25, 2026, the day following the insertion of the announcement in the provincial gazette, and extending until October 24, 2026. During this period, interested parties may:

• Consult the complete file at the municipal offices of the Pinofranqueado City Council.
• Submit any claims and allegations they deem appropriate.
• Consult the documentation on the notice board of the municipal electronic headquarters, accessible at https://pinofranqueado.sedelectronica.es.

If no claims have been submitted after the deadline, the provisional approval agreement will be understood as definitively adopted, without the need for a new plenary pronouncement.

What the regulation governs

The purpose of the ordinance is the prevention of forest fires in the peri-urban area of the municipal district, that is, in the contact environment between the urban center and forest lands. Its application directly affects the owners of plots, homes, and facilities located in that urban-forest interface strip, who are subject to the preventive measures established by the municipal regulation.

The articulated text is not reproduced in the Pinofranqueado announcement, which is limited to formalizing the provisional approval and the opening of the public exhibition process. The specific content of the obligations, execution deadlines, and inspection regime will be known once the file is consulted at the municipal offices.

A model spreading across the province

The initiative in Pinofranqueado joins a series of fire prevention ordinances in peri-urban areas currently being processed in municipalities across the province. In the same Official Gazette of the Province of Cáceres, the initial approval of the equivalent ordinance for the City Council of Arroyomolinos de la Vera was published on September 21, 2026, under reference BOP-2026-4375, as agreed by its Plenary on September 17, 2026.

The full text of that ordinance, published alongside the announcement, reveals the technical model shared by these regulations:

• The peri-urban strip is configured perimetrically around the urban center with an average width of 400 meters from the urban land boundary in nuclei included in high-risk zones.
• The planning instrument is the Municipal Peri-Urban Forest Fire Prevention Plan (PPPI), which is mandatory for the owners of the affected lands.
• A protection band for the urban center is planned through silvicultural treatments that reduce the load and continuity of plant fuel.
• Failure to comply with obligations may lead to municipal requirements and the subsidiary execution of the works.

Along the same lines, the City Council of Majadas published on August 14, 2026, under reference BOP-2026-3856, the final approval of its ordinance for the cleaning, clearing, and maintenance of urban plots and parcels, which extends its scope to lands included in the peri-urban strip for fire prevention reasons.

Impact for Residents

The opening of this period is the last opportunity for affected owners to influence the content of the ordinance before it is definitively approved and its obligations become enforceable. Those who own plots or homes in the peri-urban environment of Pinofranqueado should review the file and, if applicable, submit allegations within thirty days, as the regulation will determine the cleaning and clearing tasks they must undertake and the sanctioning regime applicable in case of non-compliance.

Source: Official Gazette of the Province of Cáceres, no. 0183, of September 24, 2026, Section I - Local Administration, page 21949 (official reference: BOP-2026-4437).