Arroyo de la Encomienda

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2013. 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?

IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Arroyo de la Encomienda. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 99–100 m.

Ground: 38% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 31% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity; 11% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9.8% in the 500-year one.
• 1.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 100%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 347 mm a year (1971–2000), about 332 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.4 °C, about 32.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 73 a year, about 49 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Zaratán · Simancas · Valladolid · Ciguñuela