el Puig de Santa Maria

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 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 58 wells and boreholes in el Puig de Santa Maria. Half of the 56 with a depth found water at 22–98 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 54% low permeability, local groundwater only; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.4% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 6.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 42% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 48% in the 500-year one.
• 15% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 337 mm a year (1971–2000), about 290 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.6 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Puçol · la Pobla de Farnals · Rafelbunyol · Albalat dels Tarongers · Nàquera / Náquera · Sagunt / Sagunto