Vilalba dels Arcs allocates 10,000 euros to natural stone facades

The City Council of Vilalba dels Arcs has opened the call for grants for the recovery, rehabilitation, or cladding of facades with natural stone, with a maximum amount of 10,000 euros. The announcement was published in the Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona (BOPT) on November 5, 2026, with the reference CVE 2026-10247 and spanning three pages. Applications can be submitted from the day after publication until December 30, 2026.

The regulatory bases for this line of aid were approved by the city council Plenary on December 4, 2025. They were initially published in the BOPT on December 12, 2025 (CVE2025-11459) and in the Official Gazette of the Generalitat de Catalunya (no. 9565, of December 17, 2025), and the final publication appeared in the BOPT on January 26, 2026 (CVE 2026-00544).

The summary is made public in accordance with articles 17.3.b and 20.8.a of Law 38/2003, of November 17, General Law on Subsidies, and the full text can be consulted in the National Subsidy Database with the code BDNS 939227. The objective is the recovery, rehabilitation, or cladding of facades with natural stone; the beneficiaries, conditions, requirements, and documentation to be attached to the application are detailed in the specific regulatory bases.

10,000 euros and non-competitive concurrence

The credit to which the grants are charged is 10,000.00 euros, charged to budget application 1522-48028. The city council may increase the maximum amount provided in this application in the event of insufficient credit.

The granting regime is that of non-competitive concurrence. The call is published on the city council’s electronic headquarters and in the Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona, and the latter publicity is carried out through the National Subsidy Database.

Who evaluates the applications and who grants them

The announcement details the distribution of functions within the procedure:

• The body responsible for the instruction is the Deputy Mayor.
• The municipal architect evaluates the applications and issues a reasoned report on the valuation and suitability of the works and compliance with the required requirements.
• The instructing body, in view of the file and this report, formulates the duly reasoned provisional resolution proposal.
• The competent body to grant the subsidies is the Local Government Board.

The deadline for resolution and notification is a maximum of three months from the submission of the applications, with notification to the email address indicated in the application, in accordance with article 40 of Law 39/2015. The expiration of the maximum term without notification has the effect of dismissal.

Deadlines, submission, and appeals

Applications must be submitted electronically or through any of the forms provided for in Article 16 of Law 39/2015, of October 1, on the common administrative procedure of public administrations, using the standardized form and the documentation specified in the rules, at the address https://vilalbadelsarcs.eadministracio.cat/info.0.

• Start of the period: the day after the publication of the announcement in the BOPT.
• Submission deadline: December 30, 2026.
• Acceptance: submitting the application implies full acceptance of the regulatory rules.
• Contentious-administrative appeal: two months from the day after notification, before the Contentious-Administrative Court of Tarragona.
• Appeal for reversal, alternative and optional: one month from the day after notification, before the same body that issued the resolution.

The general applicable regime includes the general subsidies Law 38/2003, Royal Decree 887/2006, the general subsidies ordinance of the Vilalba dels Arcs City Council, Decree 179/1995, Law 39/2015, Law 40/2015, and Law 26/2010. The resolutions issued in execution of the call exhaust the administrative route. The announcement was signed by Laura Domènech Vallespí, mayor, dated November 2, 2026.

The call opens a financing route for owners who wish to recover or clad facades with natural stone, a material characteristic of the traditional architecture of Terra Alta, and at the same time provides work for construction and local trades within a window of less than two months, until December 30, 2026. The procedure, however, is not competitive but based on the order of request, and those whose application is not resolved within the provided three months will see the request dismissed by silence.

Fuente: Official Gazette of the Province of Tarragona (BOPT), November 5, 2026, section I, pp. 1-3 (official reference: CVE 2026-10247).