Sant Gregori

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 2011. 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 9 wells and boreholes in Sant Gregori. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 17–74 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 53% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 28% practically impermeable; 19% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 6.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 8% in the 500-year one.
• 3.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 2.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 2.5% 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.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 622 mm a year (1971–2000), about 521 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.2 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 22 a year, about 8 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Salt · Sarrià de Ter · Canet d'Adri · Palol de Revardit · Bescanó · Girona · Sant Martí de Llémena · Sant Julià de Ramis