Roquetas de Mar

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2010. 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 268 wells and boreholes in Roquetas de Mar. Half of the 262 with a depth found water at 14–66 m. Measured yields (27): 20–50 L/s, the middle half. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 43% low permeability, local groundwater only; 31% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 5.7% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.7% in the 500-year one.
• 2.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 14% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 7.6% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.13 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 165 mm a year (1971–2000), about 140 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.8 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

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