Vilassar de Mar

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 2006. 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 38 wells and boreholes in Vilassar de Mar. Half of the 38 with a depth found water at 20–39 m.

Ground: 57% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 42% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 11% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 22% in the 500-year one.
• 1.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 444 mm a year (1971–2000), about 374 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.7 °C, about 29.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cabrera de Mar · Premià de Mar · Cabrils · Premià de Dalt · Vilassar de Dalt