El Puerto de Santa María

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.

Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1991. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 98% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 146 wells and boreholes in El Puerto de Santa María. Half of the 135 with a depth found water at 7–23 m.

Ground: 39% low permeability, local groundwater only; 29% practically impermeable; 18% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 21% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 22% in the 500-year one.
• 15% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 10% 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 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 513 mm a year (1971–2000), about 428 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.9 °C, about 32.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Rota · Jerez de la Frontera · Puerto Real · Sanlúcar de Barrameda