Baños de Valdearados

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1999. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Baños de Valdearados. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 33–43 m.

Ground: 56% low permeability, local groundwater only; 33% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 421 mm a year (1971–2000), about 396 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.6 °C, about 31.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 86 a year, about 60 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Tubilla del Lago · Hontoria de Valdearados · Valdeande · Villanueva de Gumiel · Quemada · Caleruega · Aranda de Duero