Carrascal de Barregas

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 2008. 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 16 wells and boreholes in Carrascal de Barregas. Half of the 15 with a depth found water at 100–155 m.

Ground: 56% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% low permeability, local groundwater only; 17% practically impermeable; 7.3% 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).
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 84%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 359 mm a year (1971–2000), about 341 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.8 °C, about 32.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 68 a year, about 46 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Parada de Arriba · Golpejas · Galindo y Perahuy · Zarapicos · El Pino de Tormes · San Pedro del Valle · Rollán · Barbadillo