Casas de Benítez

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1980. 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 11 wells and boreholes in Casas de Benítez. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 16–155 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 55% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% 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.
• 2.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.3% in the 500-year one.
• 0.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 353 mm a year (1971–2000), about 316 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.4 °C, about 35.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 55 a year, about 32 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Casas de Guijarro · Pozoamargo · Villalgordo del Júcar · Sisante · Fuensanta · La Roda · Tarazona de la Mancha · Alarcón