Benifallet

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 2004. 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 14 wells and boreholes in Benifallet. Half of the 14 with a depth found water at 12–50 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 38% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 10% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 9.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 11% in the 500-year one.
• 9.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 76% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 76% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 84%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 411 mm a year (1971–2000), about 351 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30 °C, about 33.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 13 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

El Pinell de Brai · Tivenys · Rasquera · Prat de Comte · Xerta · Miravet · Paüls