Alcalá del Júcar

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1979. 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 Alcalá del Júcar. Half of the 8 with a depth found water at 12–276 m. 8 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% low permeability, local groundwater only; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 23% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 6.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.3% in the 500-year one.
• 1.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 34% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 315 mm a year (1971–2000), about 278 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.5 °C, about 34.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 48 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

La Recueja · Casas de Ves · Abengibre · Alatoz · Alborea · Carcelén · Fuentealbilla · Casas-Ibáñez