Cortes de Arenoso

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 2000. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Cortes de Arenoso. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 120–236 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 55% low permeability, local groundwater only; 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.6% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.4% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 4 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 68% 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 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 436 mm a year (1971–2000), about 379 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.6 °C, about 30.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 48 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Fuentes de Rubielos · Zucaina · Villahermosa del Río · Puebla de Arenoso · Nogueruelas · Arañuel · Montanejos · Linares de Mora