Isona i Conca Dellà

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 2012. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Isona i Conca Dellà. Half of the 8 with a depth found water at 90–140 m. 17 springs are recorded.

Ground: 65% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 5.9% low permeability, local groundwater only.

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).
• 19% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 19% 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 78%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 502 mm a year (1971–2000), about 440 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29 °C, about 33 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 97 a year, about 65 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Gavet de la Conca · Talarn · Llimiana · Abella de la Conca · Conca de Dalt · Salàs de Pallars · Vilanova de Meià · la Baronia de Rialb