Castañeda

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Cantabria allows a new house on rustic land only within 200 m of a village, on at least 1,500 m².

Ley 5/2022, art. 51. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1987. 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.

Catastro records 83 homes on rustic plots in Castañeda, 22 of them built before 1950, and 136 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns in Cantabria where you can build a house →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records one well or borehole in Castañeda. Its depth: 250 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 73% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 4 ha, in 2022.
• 5.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.2% in the 500-year one.
• 3.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 2.6% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,233 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,037 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.4 °C, about 25.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 8 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santa María de Cayón · Puente Viesgo · Villaescusa · Santiurde de Toranzo · Piélagos