Gelida

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 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 5 wells and boreholes in Gelida. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 60–143 m.

Ground: 47% practically impermeable; 23% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.2% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.2% in the 500-year one.
• 4.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 31% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 31% 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 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 445 mm a year (1971–2000), about 377 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 20 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Llorenç d'Hortons · Castellví de Rosanes · Corbera de Llobregat · Sant Esteve Sesrovires · Sant Sadurní d'Anoia · Subirats · Cervelló