Antella

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1995. 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.

Catastro records one home on rustic plots in Antella, and 146 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Valencian Community where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 19 wells and boreholes in Antella. Half of the 18 with a depth found water at 19–90 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 27% porous aquifer, high productivity; 24% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 16% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 496 mm a year (1971–2000), about 421 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.9 °C, about 34.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sumacàrcer · Cotes · Gavarda · Càrcer · Alberic · Alzira