Next summer 2026 is anticipated as the key moment to resolve the administrative future of Bellaterra, a town of just over 3,000 inhabitants currently legally dependent on Cerdanyola del Vallès. The Cerdanyola council, mandated by firm judicial rulings, must incorporate technical reports from all involved administrations – including the EMD and the Sant Cugat City Council – into the file started in 2019.
Once Cerdanyola submits the file, the Generalitat will have approximately six months to make a final decision on whether Bellaterra integrates into Sant Cugat or remains within Cerdanyola. The Sant Cugat City Council has already approved a report deeming the integration “viable,” although it questions the future role of the EMD post-annexation. This process has generated internal tensions in the EMD of Bellaterra, where the government led by Josep Maria Riba (Bellaterra Endavant) rejected a plural opposition commission during the extraordinary plenary session on December 15.
“"we have not found any institutional public representative who provides evident reasons why the segregation must take place."
The territorial conflict dates back more than three decades, with a first formal attempt at independence in 1992 that failed. After a citizen consultation in September 2015, the Parliament rejected creating a new municipality. The current path began in 2019, when the Comissió Bellaterra Es Sant Cugat formally presented the annexation initiative with the support of 61% of the census, a citizen mandate that now reaches its resolution.
