Castellbell i el Vilar

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 1985. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Castellbell i el Vilar. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 16–17 m.

Ground: 65% low permeability, local groundwater only; 17% practically impermeable; 7.4% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.8% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.8% in the 500-year one.
• 4.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 21% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 21% 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 86%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 422 mm a year (1971–2000), about 360 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 43 a year, about 21 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Monistrol de Montserrat · Marganell · Sant Vicenç de Castellet · Vacarisses · Rellinars