Corcos

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1986. 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 3 wells and boreholes in Corcos. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 170–289 m.

Ground: 33% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 27% porous aquifer, high productivity; 21% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.8% in the 500-year one.
• 4.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 3.6% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 69%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 360 mm a year (1971–2000), about 344 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.9 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 81 a year, about 56 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Trigueros del Valle · Cigales · Cubillas de Santa Marta · Cabezón de Pisuerga · Ampudia · Valoria la Buena · San Martín de Valvení