Torralba del Pinar

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 2017. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Torralba del Pinar. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 100–252 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 50% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 29% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% practically impermeable; 5% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 100% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 100% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 451 mm a year (1971–2000), about 391 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.7 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 22 a year, about 9 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Fuentes de Ayódar · Pavías · Higueras · Cirat · Ayódar · Villamalur · Montán