Castellnou de Seana

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 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.

Is there water?

IGME records 5 wells and boreholes in Castellnou de Seana. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 7 m.

Ground: 53% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 42% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.5% in the 500-year one.
• 3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 63%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 282 mm a year (1971–2000), about 243 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 34.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 45 a year, about 23 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Bellpuig · Ivars d'Urgell · Golmés · Vila-sana · Vilanova de Bellpuig