Casas de Juan Núñez

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1993. 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 Juan Núñez. Half of the 11 with a depth found water at 103–214 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 64% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.6% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 2.1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 304 mm a year (1971–2000), about 270 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.2 °C, about 35.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 51 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Valdeganga · Jorquera · Pozo-Lorente · Villavaliente · Higueruela · Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón