Talamanca

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 1984. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Talamanca. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 65% low permeability, local groundwater only; 28% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1,635 ha, in 2022.
• 1.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.2% in the 500-year one.
• 1.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 20% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 20% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 453 mm a year (1971–2000), about 387 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.8 °C, about 31.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 70 a year, about 39 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Calders · Navarcles · El Pont de Vilomara i Rocafort · Mura · Monistrol de Calders · Sant Fruitós de Bages