Vilanova d'Escornalbou

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 2017. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Vilanova d'Escornalbou. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 8–71 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 73% practically impermeable; 10% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.7% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 18% 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.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 91% of homes; fibre 66%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 445 mm a year (1971–2000), about 380 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.5 °C, about 31.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 12 a year, about 4 by 2041–2070.

Around it

L'Argentera · Colldejou · Riudecanyes · Pratdip · Mont-roig del Camp