Berga

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 2005. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

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

Catastro records 13 homes on rustic plots in Berga, 3 of them built before 1950, and 63 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 Berga. Its depth: 43 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 73% low permeability, local groundwater only; 14% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 5.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 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.
• 9.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 9.4% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 552 mm a year (1971–2000), about 482 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.8 °C, about 30.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 94 a year, about 61 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Avià · Cercs · Capolat · Olvan · Castellar del Riu