Olocau

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 2004. 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 10 wells and boreholes in Olocau. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 110–158 m.

Ground: 32% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.5% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.5% practically impermeable; 6.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 9 ha in all, the latest in 2022.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.2% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 36% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 36% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 94% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 386 mm a year (1971–2000), about 334 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 11 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Marines · Serra · Gátova · la Pobla de Vallbona · Llíria