Castellví de Rosanes

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.

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Castellví de Rosanes. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 73% practically impermeable; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.3% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 198 ha, in 2021.
• 1.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 20% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 20% 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 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 439 mm a year (1971–2000), about 371 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 15 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Corbera de Llobregat · Martorell · Sant Andreu de la Barca · Sant Esteve Sesrovires · Gelida