Montitxelvo / Montichelvo

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 1998. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Montitxelvo / Montichelvo. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 81–96 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 56% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% practically impermeable; 9.4% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 8.1% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 2,356 ha, in 2023.
• 2.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.7% in the 500-year one.
• 1.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 22% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 602 mm a year (1971–2000), about 506 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.3 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 8 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Aielo de Rugat · Terrateig · Benicolet · l'Orxa / Lorcha