Alfara de la Baronia

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 2008. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 9 wells and boreholes in Alfara de la Baronia. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 205–287 m.

Ground: 38% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 30% porous aquifer, high productivity; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.4% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.9% in the 500-year one.
• 3.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 86%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 418 mm a year (1971–2000), about 361 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.5 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 6 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Algar de Palància · Algímia d'Alfara · Sagunt / Sagunto · Segorbe