Ogassa

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 1997. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Ogassa. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 34–150 m. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 85% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.6% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

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.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.11 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 87% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 752 mm a year (1971–2000), about 660 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.1 °C, about 26.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 100 a year, about 66 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Joan de les Abadesses · Pardines · Ribes de Freser · Ripoll · Vilallonga de Ter · Campdevànol · Camprodon