El Pla del Penedès

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 1993. 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 11 wells and boreholes in El Pla del Penedès. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 57–150 m.

Ground: 68% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 32% practically impermeable.

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).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 417 mm a year (1971–2000), about 353 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.9 °C, about 33.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 17 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Puigdàlber · Torrelavit · Santa Fe del Penedès · Font-rubí · Subirats