Vilallonga / Villalonga

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 1999. 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 22 wells and boreholes in Vilallonga / Villalonga. Half of the 16 with a depth found water at 94–291 m. 3 springs are recorded.

Ground: 39% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 33% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 5.5% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 2,526 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.6% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 45% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 65% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 95% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 644 mm a year (1971–2000), about 540 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 4 a year, about 1 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Ador · Castellonet de la Conquesta · Potries · l'Atzúbia · Llocnou de Sant Jeroni · la Vall de Gallinera · la Font d'en Carròs · Terrateig