El Casar de Escalona

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. 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 99% 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 El Casar de Escalona. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 120–140 m.

Ground: 72% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.9% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 3 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 36 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 3.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.9% in the 500-year one.
• 2.8% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 3.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 416 mm a year (1971–2000), about 391 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.8 °C, about 37 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 38 a year, about 19 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Otero · Los Cerralbos · Hormigos · Nombela