Herrera de Pisuerga

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 2010. 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 Herrera de Pisuerga. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 250–314 m.

Ground: 50% low permeability, local groundwater only; 34% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 16% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 11% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 12% in the 500-year one.
• 5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 0.8% 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 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 492 mm a year (1971–2000), about 460 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.4 °C, about 29.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 95 a year, about 68 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Castrillo de Riopisuerga · San Cristóbal de Boedo · Santa Cruz de Boedo · Zarzosa de Río Pisuerga · Calahorra de Boedo · Rezmondo · Páramo de Boedo · Sotresgudo