Terrassa

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 2003. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Terrassa. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 200–225 m.

Ground: 77% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.1% in the 500-year one.
• 2.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 9.6% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 9.6% 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.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 442 mm a year (1971–2000), about 375 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 21 a year, about 8 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Matadepera · Viladecavalls · Castellar del Vallès · Ullastrell · Vacarisses · Sant Quirze del Vallès · Rubí · Sabadell