Benissanet

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: Plan General (a full town 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 28 wells and boreholes in Benissanet. Half of the 28 with a depth found water at 28–53 m.

Ground: 33% porous aquifer, high productivity; 26% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 6.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 14% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 18% in the 500-year one.
• 13% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 37% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 37% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 81%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 351 mm a year (1971–2000), about 299 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.4 °C, about 35 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 13 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Móra d'Ebre · Miravet · Ginestar · El Pinell de Brai · Tivissa · Corbera d'Ebre · Gandesa