Ciempozuelos

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.

Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2009. 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 24 wells and boreholes in Ciempozuelos. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 3–7 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 40% low permeability, local groundwater only; 31% porous aquifer, high productivity; 27% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 13% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 18% in the 500-year one.
• 7.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 73% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 72% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 313 mm a year (1971–2000), about 295 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.4 °C, about 35.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 48 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Titulcia · Valdemoro · Seseña · San Martín de la Vega · Chinchón · Aranjuez