Benigembla

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 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 12 wells and boreholes in Benigembla. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 190–272 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 35% porous aquifer, high productivity; 29% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only; 5.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.2% in the 500-year one.
• 1.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 11% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 570 mm a year (1971–2000), about 476 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.3 °C, about 30.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 6 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

la Vall de Laguar · Parcent · Murla · Tàrbena · Castell de Castells