Garrafe de Torío

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 2015. 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 17 wells and boreholes in Garrafe de Torío. Half of the 16 with a depth found water at 101–295 m.

Ground: 72% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.4% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 24 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 3.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.4% in the 500-year one.
• 2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 606 mm a year (1971–2000), about 556 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.6 °C, about 29.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 105 a year, about 76 by 2041–2070.

Around it

La Robla · Villaquilambre · Cuadros · Santa Colomba de Curueño · Sariegos · Matallana de Torío · Valdefresno · Vegas del Condado