Cervelló

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?

IGME records 6 wells and boreholes in Cervelló. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 203–300 m.

Ground: 42% practically impermeable; 24% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.6% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 15 ha, in 2026.
• 1.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 54% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 54% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 433 mm a year (1971–2000), about 366 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 9 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

La Palma de Cervelló · Sant Vicenç dels Horts · Torrelles de Llobregat · Vallirana · Corbera de Llobregat · Gelida · Subirats