Alhaurín de la Torre

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.

Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1990. 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 278 wells and boreholes in Alhaurín de la Torre. Half of the 247 with a depth found water at 10–68 m. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 36% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% practically impermeable; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1,944 ha, in 2022.
• 4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.5% in the 500-year one.
• 4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 0.5% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.08 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 532 mm a year (1971–2000), about 451 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.3 °C, about 33 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Torremolinos · Benalmádena · Alhaurín el Grande · Cártama · Mijas · Málaga