la Font de la Figuera

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 2023. 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 25 wells and boreholes in la Font de la Figuera. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 11–22 m.

Ground: 46% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 38% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.5% in the 500-year one.
• 36% 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 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 375 mm a year (1971–2000), about 320 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.8 °C, about 33.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 20 a year, about 8 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Moixent / Mogente · Fontanars dels Alforins · Enguera · Almansa · Villena