Molina de Segura

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Murcia 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 13/2015, art. 95. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2006. 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 99 wells and boreholes in Molina de Segura. Half of the 89 with a depth found water at 13–35 m. 7 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% practically impermeable; 31% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 17% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 5.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.6% in the 500-year one.
• 3.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 5.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 4% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.15 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 205 mm a year (1971–2000), about 177 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.4 °C, about 35.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 3 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Lorquí · Archena · Ulea · Fortuna · Alguazas · Blanca · Las Torres de Cotillas · Abarán