Cistérniga

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. 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 5 wells and boreholes in Cistérniga. Half of the 5 with a depth found water at 105–147 m.

Ground: 33% porous aquifer, high productivity; 24% low permeability, local groundwater only; 20% practically impermeable; 17% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 6.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6.7% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.1% 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 97%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 355 mm a year (1971–2000), about 339 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 71 a year, about 47 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Tudela de Duero · Laguna de Duero · Renedo de Esgueva · Valladolid · Aldeamayor de San Martín