Energy and geological resources space: can you build on it in Portugal?
Only for extraction and related uses: land in the energy and geological resources category is reserved for exploiting those resources, with plan rules that limit environmental impact and require landscape recovery afterwards.
- Answer
- Housing is not the purpose; the plan regulates what may be built.
- Plan duty
- Plans must delimit and regulate this category and the location of primary industrial processing.
- Who decides
- The municipality, with the sector authorities.
- Council rules
- The municipal plan (PDM) sets the detail for your plot; ask the council for a planning certificate (certidão) and the plan maps.
- Legal basis
- Decreto Regulamentar 15/2015, article 20
- Sources
- files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2015/08/16100/0613706143.pdf
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
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