Santa Eugènia de Berga

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 2005. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Santa Eugènia de Berga. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 60–110 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 88% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.7% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 533 mm a year (1971–2000), about 455 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 80 a year, about 48 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Calldetenes · Sant Julià de Vilatorta · Vic · Taradell · Malla