Peníscola / Peñíscola

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 1977. 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 102 wells and boreholes in Peníscola / Peñíscola. Half of the 92 with a depth found water at 15–80 m. One measured yield: 165 L/s. 7 springs are recorded.

Ground: 33% low permeability, local groundwater only; 31% porous aquifer, high productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 5.6% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 6.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9% in the 500-year one.
• 2.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 54% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 54% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 402 mm a year (1971–2000), about 344 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.8 °C, about 28.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santa Magdalena de Pulpis · Benicarló · Alcalà de Xivert · Cervera del Maestre · Càlig