Urdazubi / Urdax

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Navarre allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it, on at least 1 ha.

DFL 1/2017, art. 115. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 1999. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Urdazubi / Urdax. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 61% practically impermeable; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 15% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 34 ha, in 2023.
• 3.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.1% in the 500-year one.
• 2.3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 47%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,783 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,511 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.7 °C, about 25.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 25 a year, about 12 by 2041–2070.

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