Santa Coloma de Farners

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 2006. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 13 wells and boreholes in Santa Coloma de Farners. Half of the 13 with a depth found water at 10–121 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 73% practically impermeable; 19% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.4% porous aquifer, high 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).
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 675 mm a year (1971–2000), about 567 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.3 °C, about 30.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 26 a year, about 10 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Brunyola i Sant Martí Sapresa · Riudarenes · Vilobí d'Onyar · Osor · Sils · Sant Feliu de Buixalleu · Sant Hilari Sacalm · Arbúcies