Legorreta

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 2010. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Legorreta. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 12 springs are recorded.

Ground: 52% low permeability, local groundwater only; 27% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.5% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.3% in the 500-year one.
• 3.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 2.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 84%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,416 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,203 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.1 °C, about 25.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 26 a year, about 12 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Ikaztegieta · Baliarrain · Itsasondo · Altzaga · Orendain · Albiztur · Bidania-Goiatz · Tolosa