Gavet de la Conca

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 2015. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Gavet de la Conca. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 20–137 m. 17 springs are recorded.

Ground: 73% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.9% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high 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).
• 18% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 18% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 34%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 494 mm a year (1971–2000), about 432 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 32.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 94 a year, about 61 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Isona i Conca Dellà · Llimiana · Vilanova de Meià · Castell de Mur · Talarn · Artesa de Segre · Tremp