La Pobla de Lillet

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 2024. 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 6 wells and boreholes in La Pobla de Lillet. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 4–150 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 41% low permeability, local groundwater only; 17% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 15% practically impermeable; 12% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.1% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1 ha, in 2023.
• 1.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.3% in the 500-year one.
• 0.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 51% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 51% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 639 mm a year (1971–2000), about 562 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.9 °C, about 27.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 97 a year, about 64 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Jaume de Frontanyà · Sant Julià de Cerdanyola · Castell de l'Areny · Castellar de n'Hug · Gombrèn · les Llosses · Guardiola de Berguedà