Vilafranca del Penedès

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 2004. 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 23 wells and boreholes in Vilafranca del Penedès. Half of the 22 with a depth found water at 10–60 m.

Ground: 99% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 396 mm a year (1971–2000), about 335 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 32.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Les Cabanyes · La Granada · Olèrdola · Pacs del Penedès · Sant Cugat Sesgarrigues · Santa Margarida i els Monjos