La Nou 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: 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 one well or borehole in La Nou de Berguedà. Its depth: 70 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 55% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 25% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% 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).
• 37% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 37% 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 11%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 608 mm a year (1971–2000), about 534 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.1 °C, about 28.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 104 a year, about 70 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Vilada · Castell de l'Areny · Sant Julià de Cerdanyola · Cercs · Guardiola de Berguedà