Buñol

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 1987. 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 33 wells and boreholes in Buñol. Half of the 29 with a depth found water at 8–120 m. 22 springs are recorded.

Ground: 39% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.5% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.7% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 46% 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 87%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 456 mm a year (1971–2000), about 396 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 18 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Chiva · Alborache · Siete Aguas · Yátova · Godelleta · Requena