Tivissa

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 99% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 36 wells and boreholes in Tivissa. Half of the 35 with a depth found water at 30–145 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 64% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.4% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 8.2% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 8 ha, in 2023.
• 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.
• 50% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 50% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 68%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 438 mm a year (1971–2000), about 373 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 17 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Ginestar · Móra la Nova · Els Guiamets · Rasquera · Capçanes · Benissanet · Vandellòs i l'Hospitalet de l'Infant · Móra d'Ebre