la Pobla Llarga

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 1997. 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 21 wells and boreholes in la Pobla Llarga. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 23–78 m.

Ground: 92% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 11% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 11% in the 500-year one.
• 4.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 503 mm a year (1971–2000), about 426 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.6 °C, about 34.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Joanet · Carcaixent · Rafelguaraf · Manuel · Senyera · l'Énova · Castelló