Canalejas de Peñafiel

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 2004. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Canalejas de Peñafiel. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 50–100 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 83% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 8.3% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.6% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.7% in the 500-year one.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 381 mm a year (1971–2000), about 362 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.1 °C, about 32.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 78 a year, about 53 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Fompedraza · Torre de Peñafiel · Membibre de la Hoz · Aldeasoña · Laguna de Contreras · Rábano · Campaspero · Olombrada