Montroi / Montroy

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 2007. 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 24 wells and boreholes in Montroi / Montroy. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 22–250 m. 7 springs are recorded.

Ground: 35% practically impermeable; 27% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.3% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 7.5% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.6% in the 500-year one.
• 3.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 9.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 97% of homes; fibre 52%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 456 mm a year (1971–2000), about 392 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.6 °C, about 32.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Real · Turís · Montserrat · Llombai · Dos Aguas