At the moment of wanting a house, the possibility of accessing a prefabricated one arises for its benefits that range from less construction time, costs, customization and modernity. However, the point against this housing option is the land and the regularizations behind it that often stop the idyllic idea.
Regarding the land issue, the non-developable do not contemplate the construction of houses, in almost all cases. There are exceptions that allow a mobile prefabricated house to be installed on rural land thanks to a “loophole”.
To understand what rustic land and ‘mobile home’ are, the Idealista web portal defined both concepts. “A rustic land or plot of land is a plot classified by territorial planning as non-developable. Rural land is also known and is characterized by the lack of urban planning and basic supply infrastructures. For example, sewage, roads, water, lighting, etc. .”, they explain.
“A mobile prefabricated house is one that can be relocated and transported because it is sometimes equipped with a chassis and wheels. In principle, this type of housing is classified as movable property, but it can also be considered as a building, since that require services and, therefore, require a municipal planning license,” says César García, director of Acounsel Abogados.
“Installing a ‘mobile home’ without a municipal license on rustic land or another type of land, can give rise to two sanctioning procedures; one for the lack of a license itself and another that can end in demolition, in the case of understanding that it should be restore the floor to its pre-installation condition,” he adds.
Self-sufficiency, key to installing a mobile prefabricated house on rural land
What is clear is that houses cannot be built on this type of land, whether prefabricated or not, unless “they are intended for agricultural and livestock activities and that the land has a certain surface area and orography,” they detail in Idealista, adding that it depends of the autonomous community. But what about a mobile prefabricated house that does not require construction? Depends. One of the keys is in “self-sufficiency”. If it is capable of self-sufficiency, it would be the same as a “caravan”.
A house with these characteristics, with self-sufficiency in its structure, requires neither work nor foundations. That it has solar panels, water tanks, waste recycling system. “This type of house takes advantage of a legal vacuum, since it can be relocated, but, finally, its legality on rustic land depends on the autonomous community of the farm,” they argue.
Legislation in each CCAA
“The possibility of locating a mobile prefabricated house on rustic land depends on the applicable legislation in each autonomous community, since each one of them can mark differences in terms of minimum plot, volume of building, height of the house, etc. Therefore , we cannot generalize about whether or not a mobile home can be installed on rustic land”, explains García.
In this context, Ignacio de la Vega, architect of the , points out that “there are rural lands on which a house can be built, whether it is prefabricated or not. There are specific cases, such as campsites, where these have to be mobile homes. normal is that the issue of ‘mobile homes’ is not regulated, so it is somewhat illegal.Usually, if it is something small it is easy to justify it as movable property, but, since it is not regulated, it is up to the technician who , in the event that someone reports you, it could cause a problem, which in this case would be to move it”.
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