Guardiola de Berguedà

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 2006. 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 Guardiola de Berguedà. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 70 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 46% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% practically impermeable; 11% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.6% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.9% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
• 65% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 65% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 645 mm a year (1971–2000), about 570 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.3 °C, about 26.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 114 a year, about 77 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Riu de Cerdanya · Urús · Gisclareny · Vallcebre · Sant Julià de Cerdanyola · Bellver de Cerdanya · Bagà · La Pobla de Lillet