Maria de la Salut

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Illes Balears requires at least 1.4 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Ley 6/1997, art. 25. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1998. 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 77 wells and boreholes in Maria de la Salut. Half of the 77 with a depth found water at 10–60 m.

Ground: 36% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 23% porous aquifer, high productivity; 22% low permeability, local groundwater only; 17% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium 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).
• 23% 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 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 424 mm a year (1971–2000), about 353 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.7 °C, about 34 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Llubí · Sineu · Ariany · Santa Margalida · Muro