Estivella

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 1996. 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 19 wells and boreholes in Estivella. Half of the 16 with a depth found water at 190–210 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 36% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 34% low permeability, local groundwater only; 26% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2 ha, in 2026.
• 2.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.8% in the 500-year one.
• 1.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 41% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 41% 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 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 422 mm a year (1971–2000), about 364 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Torres Torres · Segart · Albalat dels Tarongers · Serra · Sagunt / Sagunto