Alfarràs

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Catalonia allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.

DL 1/2010, art. 47. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1990. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Catastro records 20 homes on rustic plots in Alfarràs, 1 of them built before 1950, and 150 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns where a new house is allowed →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records one well or borehole in Alfarràs. Its depth: 80 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 40% porous aquifer, high productivity; 33% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% practically impermeable; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 11% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 15% in the 500-year one.
• 5.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 314 mm a year (1971–2000), about 272 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30 °C, about 34 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 56 a year, about 31 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Algerri · Almenar · Ivars de Noguera · Castillonroy · Albelda