Condado de Castilnovo

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1998. 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 14 wells and boreholes in Condado de Castilnovo. Half of the 13 with a depth found water at 220–339 m.

Ground: 51% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 18% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 9.1% porous aquifer, high productivity.

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).
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 413 mm a year (1971–2000), about 385 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.2 °C, about 32.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 80 a year, about 54 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Aldealcorvo · Sepúlveda · Castroserna de Abajo · San Pedro de Gaíllos · Santa Marta del Cerro · Valleruela de Sepúlveda