Green space (espaço verde): can you build on it in Portugal?
Generally no for housing: a green space (espaço verde) is urban land for environmental balance, landscape and open-air leisure, sport and culture, and often forms part of the municipal ecological structure.
- Answer
- Only uses linked to open-air recreation and the green function.
- Definition
- Areas for ecological balance, landscape value and open-air recreation, leisure, sport and culture activities.
- Who decides
- The municipality.
- 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 25(d)
- Sources
- files.diariodarepublica.pt/1s/2015/08/16100/0613706143.pdf
- Checked
- 2026-11-05
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