Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Barcelona
Olivella
Barcelona · Catalonia · 39 km²
What rustic land in Olivella allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
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 2022. The region's planning viewer ↗
The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 98% of the municipality.
Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.
Is there water?
IGME records 21 wells and boreholes in Olivella. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 60–220 m. One spring is recorded.
Ground: 68% low permeability, local groundwater only; 25% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 160 ha, in 2022.
- No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
- 69% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
- 69% 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 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 394 mm a year (1971–2000), about 332 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 27.1 °C, about 30 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Sant Pere de Ribes · Canyelles · Avinyonet del Penedès · Sitges · Olèrdola · Olesa de Bonesvalls · Begues
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From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.