Ambite

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.

Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1995. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Ambite. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 33% practically impermeable; 13% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.6% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 5.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.4% in the 500-year one.
• 3.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 12% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 381 mm a year (1971–2000), about 356 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.5 °C, about 34.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 55 a year, about 32 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Olmeda de las Fuentes · Villar del Olmo · Mondéjar · Orusco de Tajuña · Pezuela de las Torres · Fuentenovilla