If you are thinking of building your own home, the first step is to have a plot of land appropriate for your needs. How do you choose the right plot of land?
By attending to three basic factors: geographical, legal and technical.
The first is a geographical factor. It is the answer to the question, “Where do I want to live?
For many people the location is one of the fundamentals to choose the right land.
This parameter responds to two subjective criteria, preference and finance.
The most sought after and most expensive plots are located in prime areas, usually consolidated residential areas close to the coast or down town such as Cabo de las Huertas in Alicante, La Font in San Juan, Sierra Cortina in Finestrat or Altea Hills in Altea.
Tastes are different, because recently there has occurred an increase of a demand for large plots among foreigners in areas that a priori are not considered prime in the interior of the province.
The legal factor determines the place where you are allowed to build.
The city planning legislation is very profuse and complex, especially in view of the different national, regional and local competences. We usually talk about rustic land, developable land and urban land.
The important thing is to know whether the land is for development purposes and has the status of a plot of land, and it can already be built on and is therefore classified as urban. These are the plots of land that are of interest if the objective is to build a house in the medium term.
There is an option of building a house with more restrictive criteria in the case of rustic land or land that requires some type of development, as would be the case of a developable land.
Finally, the technical parameters that resolve the doubts related to what you can build on a specific plot of land.
From the urban planning legislation and the general plan of a given locality, the partial plans emanate that determine which land is destined for residential use and, specifically, for single-family residential, detached or semi-detached. Likewise, these plans establish the technical criteria for minimum plot size, building coefficient, which is usually measured as a percentage of the square metre of ceilings, height both in metres and in floors, setbacks to boundaries, maximum plot occupation… and a wide range of conditions necessary for the construction of a detached house.
The geographical, legal and technical knowledge of the professionals of personalHOME are fundamental to help our clients to decide whether a plot of land is appropriate for them or not. Mainly, through our land configurator where all these parameters have been studied in order to be able to choose the personalHOME model home suitable for each plot.
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