Vilafranca / Villafranca del Cid

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1992. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Vilafranca / Villafranca del Cid. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 23–138 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 46% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 26% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.6% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.2% porous aquifer, medium 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.
• 0.7% 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 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 456 mm a year (1971–2000), about 394 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.9 °C, about 28.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 46 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

La Iglesuela del Cid · Benassal · Castellfort · Portell de Morella · Ares del Maestrat · Mosqueruela · Vistabella del Maestrat