Land surveyor in Calpe

Hillside urbanisations: the 1975 plan and today's plot

Many of Calp's urbanisations were laid out in the 1970s on slopes of pine and scrub, with large-scale plans and plots set out with a tape measure. Half a century later, the wall, the street and the cadastral drawing rarely coincide. Sometimes it is a matter of centimetres. Other times, the neighbour built their pool a metre inside your plot.

We measure with GNSS and a total station, overlay the urbanisation plan if there is one, the cadastral mapping and the title deed, and locate every difference. If the Cadastre or the Land Registry needs correcting, we prepare the GML file and, when necessary, the alternative graphic validation report (IVGA).

Land surveyor in Calp for house projects

The slope is the first constraint on any project in Calp. A survey that is useful to the architect records fine contour lines, the street level along the whole frontage, retaining walls, trees, inspection chambers and service connections, and the neighbouring houses with their heights when they affect views or setbacks.

When the machines arrive, we set out the axes and corners of the house and measure the excavation. In rock every cubic metre is paid for, so it is worth having the ground surface before and after digging.

Les Salines, the Penyal and the coastline

Calp has a salt lagoon right in the middle of town and a natural park on the Penyal d'Ifac. Plots that border Les Salines, the park or the sea carry constraints that have to be drawn before any design: protected wetland, the maritime-terrestrial public domain, the coastal protection easement. Those limits are approved by other bodies. We position them precisely in relation to your plot.

To the south, by the Morro de Toix, the rock drops straight into the sea and plots are built as a series of platforms. There we measure every level with a total station, because detail is what makes design possible.

Before buying in Calp

If you are buying, measuring before you sign is the simplest way to avoid surprises. We tell you whether the area in the title deed is the real one, whether what has been built is in the Cadastre and whether there is any wall, terrace or annex that will need regularising. Your lawyer arrives at the notary's office with data, not doubts.

In the older urbanisations we also check that access from the street does not cross someone else's land and that the road drawn on the plan exists where it should. It sounds obvious, and it is not always so.

Typical cases in Calp / Calpe

An owner who wants to fence their plot in the Serra d'Oltà and discovers that the urbanisation plan does not match the Cadastre. A studio designing a villa with views of the Penyal that needs the full topography and the excavation volume. A buyer who wants to check, before signing the deeds, that the advertised area is what the plot really has.