Grandas de Salime

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 2006. 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 10 wells and boreholes in Grandas de Salime. Half of the 10 with a depth found water at 40–68 m. 17 springs are recorded.

Ground: 93% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,605 ha in all, the latest in 2017.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 0.6% 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 99% of homes; fibre 71%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,175 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,013 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.8 °C, about 25.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 44 a year, about 25 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Negueira de Muñiz · Pesoz · San Martín de Oscos · Santa Eulalia de Oscos · A Fonsagrada · Allande