Palma

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Illes Balears requires at least 1.4 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Ley 6/1997, art. 25. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2006. 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 1851 wells and boreholes in Palma. Half of the 1810 with a depth found water at 8–28 m. 6 springs are recorded.

Ground: 42% porous aquifer, high productivity; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 4 ha, in 2021.
• 6.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.5% in the 500-year one.
• 3.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 6.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 9.7% 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 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 312 mm a year (1971–2000), about 260 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.4 °C, about 33.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Marratxí · Santa María del Camí · Santa Eugènia · Esporles · Bunyola · Valldemossa · Algaida · Calvià