Seva

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 2007. 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 6 homes on rustic plots in Seva, and 20 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns where a new house is allowed →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 2 wells and boreholes in Seva. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 205 m.

Ground: 60% low permeability, local groundwater only; 14% porous aquifer, high productivity; 11% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.9% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.9% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 21% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 21% 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.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 584 mm a year (1971–2000), about 495 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.9 °C, about 30.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 79 a year, about 48 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Taradell · Tona · el Brull · Balenyà · Aiguafreda · Malla · Viladrau · Centelles