Biar

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 2002. 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 46 wells and boreholes in Biar. Half of the 45 with a depth found water at 130–319 m. One measured yield: 2 L/s. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 65% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 21% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 6.1% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 26% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 306 mm a year (1971–2000), about 261 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 28 a year, about 12 by 2041–2070.

Around it

el Camp de Mirra / Campo de Mirra · Cañada · Onil · Beneixama · Banyeres de Mariola · Sax · Castalla · Villena