Cocentaina

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 2005. 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 52 wells and boreholes in Cocentaina. Half of the 50 with a depth found water at 35–200 m. Measured yields (7): 15–21 L/s, the middle half. 20 springs are recorded.

Ground: 42% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.9% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.2% in the 500-year one.
• 1.6% 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.
• 56% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 440 mm a year (1971–2000), about 369 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 19 a year, about 6 by 2041–2070.

Around it

l'Alqueria d'Asnar · Benilloba · Millena · Benillup · Benimarfull · Gorga · Muro de Alcoy · Agres