Tales

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1994. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 14 wells and boreholes in Tales. Half of the 13 with a depth found water at 100–297 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 89% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 10,610 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 2.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.3% in the 500-year one.
• 1.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 100% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 65% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 481 mm a year (1971–2000), about 416 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 15 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

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