Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma

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 2007. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 95–314 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 74% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.2% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1.9% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 0.6% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 418 mm a year (1971–2000), about 388 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.8 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 89 a year, about 63 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Gormaz · Valdenebro · Quintanas de Gormaz · Valdemaluque · Villanueva de Gormaz · San Esteban de Gormaz · Fresno de Caracena · Nafría de Ucero