la Vall de Laguar

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 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 6 wells and boreholes in la Vall de Laguar. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 200–405 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 38% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 12,111 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 52% 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 30%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 623 mm a year (1971–2000), about 521 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Benigembla · Murla · la Vall d'Ebo · Castell de Castells · Orba · Tàrbena