Cortes de Pallás

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 1989. 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 one well or borehole in Cortes de Pallás. 23 springs are recorded.

Ground: 42% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 35% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.5% practically impermeable; 5.5% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 100% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 74%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 492 mm a year (1971–2000), about 424 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 26 a year, about 12 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Millares · Yátova · Dos Aguas · Jalance · Cofrentes · Teresa de Cofrentes · Bicorp · Jarafuel