La Pobla de Claramunt

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 1981. 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 4 wells and boreholes in La Pobla de Claramunt. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 10–452 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 45% practically impermeable; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 22% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.8% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 502 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 2.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.1% in the 500-year one.
• 2.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.9% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.9% 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 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 433 mm a year (1971–2000), about 369 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.8 °C, about 32.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 37 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Vallbona d'Anoia · Castellolí · Vilanova del Camí · La Torre de Claramunt · Carme · Piera · Òdena