Salt

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 2005. 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.

Catastro records 4 homes on rustic plots in Salt, 2 of them built before 1950, and 30 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns where a new house is allowed →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Salt. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 8–65 m.

Ground: 88% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 13% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 21% in the 500-year one.
• 7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 31% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 31% 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.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 582 mm a year (1971–2000), about 486 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 22 a year, about 7 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Vilablareix · Sant Gregori · Girona · Bescanó