Vejer de la Frontera

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Andalucía requires at least 2.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 5 ha on forest land.

Decreto 550/2022, art. 31. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2000. 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 174 wells and boreholes in Vejer de la Frontera. Half of the 169 with a depth found water at 6–50 m. 15 springs are recorded.

Ground: 39% porous aquifer, high productivity; 31% low permeability, local groundwater only; 20% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.6% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 28 ha, in 2026.
• 14% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 18% in the 500-year one.
• 24% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.2% 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 77%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 666 mm a year (1971–2000), about 550 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.7 °C, about 33.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 0 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Medina Sidonia · Conil de la Frontera · Barbate · Chiclana de la Frontera · Tarifa