El Pla de Santa Maria

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 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 27 wells and boreholes in El Pla de Santa Maria. Half of the 27 with a depth found water at 93–190 m.

Ground: 98% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 1.1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.1% 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 75%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 423 mm a year (1971–2000), about 361 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 14 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Alió · Figuerola del Camp · Vila-rodona · Cabra del Camp · El Pont d'Armentera · Valls · Aiguamúrcia