Fontanars dels Alforins

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 2019. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Fontanars dels Alforins. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 20–168 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 32% low permeability, local groundwater only; 28% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 19% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.9% in the 500-year one.
• 1.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 83% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 384 mm a year (1971–2000), about 325 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 24 a year, about 9 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Moixent / Mogente · Beneixama · el Camp de Mirra / Campo de Mirra · la Font de la Figuera · Ontinyent · Banyeres de Mariola · Villena