Hontoria del Pinar

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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Hontoria del Pinar. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 45% low permeability, local groundwater only; 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 14% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 32% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 34% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 617 mm a year (1971–2000), about 567 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.7 °C, about 30.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 104 a year, about 74 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Rabanera del Pinar · Espejón · San Leonardo de Yagüe · Espeja de San Marcelino · Santa María de las Hoyas · Palacios de la Sierra