Berlanga de Duero

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 99% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records one well or borehole in Berlanga de Duero. Its depth: 315 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 53% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.3% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.7% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 70 ha, in 2026.
• 2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.3% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 3.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 84%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 410 mm a year (1971–2000), about 382 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.6 °C, about 31.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 94 a year, about 66 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Bayubas de Abajo · Arenillas · Recuerda · Quintanas de Gormaz · Caltojar · La Riba de Escalote · Tajueco · Velamazán