Xeresa

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: Plan General (a full town 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 21 wells and boreholes in Xeresa. Half of the 21 with a depth found water at 21–40 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 24% surface water body; 23% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 19% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 66 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 33% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 35% in the 500-year one.
• 66% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 24% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 578 mm a year (1971–2000), about 490 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 2 a year, about 0 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Gandia · Xeraco · Barx · Benifairó de la Valldigna · Simat de la Valldigna