Callosa de Segura

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 40 wells and boreholes in Callosa de Segura. Half of the 33 with a depth found water at 4–53 m.

Ground: 93% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 15% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 26% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 6.7% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 3.4% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.16 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 197 mm a year (1971–2000), about 168 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.9 °C, about 34.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Granja de Rocamora · Cox · Catral · San Isidro · Redován · Crevillent · Orihuela