Villanueva de las Torres

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1991. 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?

IGME records 12 wells and boreholes in Villanueva de las Torres. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 15–23 m. 7 springs are recorded.

Ground: 80% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.7% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 2.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.8% in the 500-year one.
• 2.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.
• Basic seismic acceleration 0.09 g: new buildings need seismic design.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 304 mm a year (1971–2000), about 263 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.5 °C, about 36.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 18 a year, about 5 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Gorafe · Dehesas de Guadix · Pedro Martínez · Fonelas · Guadix