Gestalgar

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 2022. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 1.7% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Gestalgar. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 256–272 m. 10 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 14% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.5% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 86% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.7% 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 76%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 397 mm a year (1971–2000), about 346 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 12 a year, about 3 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sot de Chera · Bugarra · Chulilla · Chera · Chiva · Siete Aguas · Cheste