Corvera de Asturias

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.

DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2024. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Corvera de Asturias. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 510–551 m. 16 springs are recorded.

Ground: 38% low permeability, local groundwater only; 19% practically impermeable; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 10% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 8.2% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.2% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.5% in the 500-year one.
• 1.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 2.1% 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 90%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 897 mm a year (1971–2000), about 764 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.3 °C, about 24.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 7 a year, about 2 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Avilés · Illas · Llanera · Carreño · Castrillón · Gozón · Gijón