Algerri

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 2015. 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.

Is there water?

IGME records 4 wells and boreholes in Algerri. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 25–82 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 63% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 27% practically impermeable; 6.5% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 37 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 58% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 58% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 322 mm a year (1971–2000), about 279 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 57 a year, about 31 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Ivars de Noguera · Alfarràs · Castelló de Farfanya · Almenar · Albesa · Os de Balaguer