Passanant i Belltall

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 2015. 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 10 wells and boreholes in Passanant i Belltall. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 11–56 m.

Ground: 87% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% practically impermeable.

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).
• 7.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 7.3% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 86% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 370 mm a year (1971–2000), about 317 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.9 °C, about 31.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 49 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Forès · Guimerà · Ciutadilla · Vallfogona de Riucorb · Vallbona de les Monges · Solivella · Conesa