Hita

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1995. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Hita. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 5–6 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 70% low permeability, local groundwater only; 17% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.2% practically impermeable.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1,562 ha, in 2022.
• 2.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 2.1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 10%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 429 mm a year (1971–2000), about 403 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.7 °C, about 33.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 70 a year, about 46 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Valdearenas · Copernal · Taragudo · Alarilla · Espinosa de Henares · Torre del Burgo · Casas de San Galindo · Muduex