Sant Antoni de Portmany

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 2001. 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 179 wells and boreholes in Sant Antoni de Portmany. Half of the 172 with a depth found water at 68–135 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 25% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 22% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% porous aquifer, high productivity; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 7 ha, in 2020.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 341 mm a year (1971–2000), about 284 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.1 °C, about 33.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Sant Josep de sa Talaia · Santa Eulària des Riu · Sant Joan de Labritja · Eivissa