les Avellanes i Santa Linya

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 2010. 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 les Avellanes i Santa Linya. Its depth: 350 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 45% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 27 ha, in 2020.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 32% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 32% 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 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 394 mm a year (1971–2000), about 343 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 33 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 70 a year, about 41 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Camarasa · Àger · Os de Balaguer · Castelló de Farfanya