Algímia d'Alfara

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 2001. 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 19 wells and boreholes in Algímia d'Alfara. Half of the 18 with a depth found water at 138–222 m.

Ground: 38% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 37% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity; 9.8% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 6.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 6.5% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 422 mm a year (1971–2000), about 364 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Torres Torres · Alfara de la Baronia · Segorbe · Sagunt / Sagunto