Onil

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 2000. 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 64 wells and boreholes in Onil. Half of the 55 with a depth found water at 25–100 m. Measured yields (9): 1.5–2 L/s, the middle half. 9 springs are recorded.

Ground: 71% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.8% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 9.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 10% in the 500-year one.
• 3.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 8.8% 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: 335 mm a year (1971–2000), about 286 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 28 a year, about 12 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Biar · Banyeres de Mariola · Ibi · Castalla · Alcoi / Alcoy