Padules

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.

Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1979. 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 6 wells and boreholes in Padules. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 26–300 m. Measured yields (2): 65–70 L/s, the middle half. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 69% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 10% low permeability, local groundwater only; 9.5% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.1% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 63% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 25% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.14 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 87%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 390 mm a year (1971–2000), about 335 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 39 a year, about 17 by 2041–2070.

Around it

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