Tavernes de la Valldigna

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 2004. 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 93 wells and boreholes in Tavernes de la Valldigna. Half of the 93 with a depth found water at 16–39 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 30% porous aquifer, high productivity; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 14% surface water body; 7.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 33% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 45% in the 500-year one.
• 13% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 36% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 13% 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 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 563 mm a year (1971–2000), about 478 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.1 °C, about 30.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Xeraco · Benifairó de la Valldigna · Favara · Cullera · Alzira