Ares del Maestrat

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1989. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Ares del Maestrat. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 101–900 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 69% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

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).
• 99% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 0.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 97% of homes; fibre 57%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 499 mm a year (1971–2000), about 430 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.3 °C, about 28.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 33 a year, about 16 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Benassal · Vilar de Canes · Catí · Castellfort · Albocàsser · Vilafranca / Villafranca del Cid · Morella