Alcalà de Xivert

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 1998. 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 50 wells and boreholes in Alcalà de Xivert. Half of the 46 with a depth found water at 40–350 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 43% low permeability, local groundwater only; 41% porous aquifer, high productivity; 9.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1 ha, in 2023.
• 5.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.1% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 17% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 17% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 418 mm a year (1971–2000), about 358 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santa Magdalena de Pulpis · Torreblanca · les Coves de Vinromà · Peníscola / Peñíscola · Vilanova d'Alcolea · la Salzadella · Benlloc