Zarra

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 1993. 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.

Catastro records 9 homes on rustic plots in Zarra, and 151 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Valencian Community where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Zarra. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 241–340 m. 12 springs are recorded.

Ground: 27% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 26% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 10% practically impermeable; 6.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.5% in the 500-year one.
• 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 352 mm a year (1971–2000), about 305 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.1 °C, about 33.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 38 a year, about 18 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Jarafuel · Ayora · Teresa de Cofrentes