Cubells

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 2016. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Cubells. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 19–26 m.

Ground: 53% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.9% in the 500-year one.
• 1.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 55% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 55% 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 82%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 329 mm a year (1971–2000), about 285 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.9 °C, about 33.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 59 a year, about 32 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Montgai · Foradada · la Sentiu de Sió · Bellcaire d'Urgell · Alòs de Balaguer · Camarasa · Balaguer