Alacant / Alicante

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Valencian Community requires at least 1 ha for a new house on rustic land.

DL 1/2021, art. 211. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1987. 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 35 wells and boreholes in Alacant / Alicante. Half of the 31 with a depth found water at 20–45 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 48% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% porous aquifer, high productivity; 9.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.3% in the 500-year one.
• 1.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 3.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 185 mm a year (1971–2000), about 158 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.4 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Vicent del Raspeig / San Vicente del Raspeig · Mutxamel · Sant Joan d'Alacant · Agost · Monforte del Cid · el Campello · Busot · Tibi