Iruraiz-Gauna

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Basque Country allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 2/2006, art. 28. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2003. 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 one well or borehole in Iruraiz-Gauna. Its depth: 4 m. 32 springs are recorded.

Ground: 89% practically impermeable; 6.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 0.9% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 876 mm a year (1971–2000), about 748 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.5 °C, about 26.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 53 a year, about 31 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Agurain / Salvatierra · Elburgo / Burgelu · Alegría-Dulantzi · Arraia-Maeztu · San Millán / Donemiliaga · Barrundia · Bernedo · Vitoria-Gasteiz