Torre-Pacheco

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Murcia allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 13/2015, art. 95. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1987. 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 209 wells and boreholes in Torre-Pacheco. Half of the 168 with a depth found water at 140–298 m.

Ground: 99% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 24% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 30% in the 500-year one.
• 4.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.4% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.4% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 201 mm a year (1971–2000), about 168 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.6 °C, about 34.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 1 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Los Alcázares · San Javier · Cartagena · Fuente Álamo de Murcia · Murcia