Quart de Poblet

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 2024. 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.

Catastro records 8 homes on rustic plots in Quart de Poblet, 1 of them built before 1950, and 175 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Valencian Community where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 41 wells and boreholes in Quart de Poblet. Half of the 40 with a depth found water at 62–170 m.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 26% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 31% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 42% in the 500-year one.
• 14% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 3.5% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 360 mm a year (1971–2000), about 311 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 5 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Aldaia · Manises · Riba-roja de Túria · Paterna · Xirivella · Mislata · València · Chiva