Tuéjar

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 2023. 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 one well or borehole in Tuéjar. Its depth: 80 m. 11 springs are recorded.

Ground: 44% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 25% low permeability, local groundwater only; 20% practically impermeable; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.2% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% 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.
• 4.9% 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 73%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 379 mm a year (1971–2000), about 335 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.4 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 45 a year, about 23 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Titaguas · Benagéber · Chelva · Sinarcas · Alpuente · Aras de los Olmos · Talayuelas · Santa Cruz de Moya