Ivars de Noguera

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 2006. 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 one well or borehole in Ivars de Noguera. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 38% practically impermeable; 23% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.8% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.8% in the 500-year one.
• 2.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 66% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 66% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 92% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 361 mm a year (1971–2000), about 314 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 33.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 60 a year, about 33 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Algerri · Castillonroy · Alfarràs · Os de Balaguer · Baldellou