Castillejo-Sierra

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 1977. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Castillejo-Sierra. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 25% practically impermeable; 23% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 14% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9.5% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.1% low permeability, local groundwater only.

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).
• 77% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 0.7% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 698 mm a year (1971–2000), about 634 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.2 °C, about 31.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 95 a year, about 64 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Arcos de la Sierra · Fresneda de la Sierra · Las Majadas · Sotorribas · Cuenca