Palma de Gandía

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 1999. 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 31 wells and boreholes in Palma de Gandía. Half of the 23 with a depth found water at 86–150 m.

Ground: 60% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.7% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 5,584 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 3.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.7% in the 500-year one.
• 3.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1% 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 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 626 mm a year (1971–2000), about 527 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.5 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Alfauir · el Real de Gandia · Beniarjó · Ador · Ròtova · Beniflá · Potries · Gandia