La Pedraja de Portillo

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 2007. 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 14 wells and boreholes in La Pedraja de Portillo. Half of the 14 with a depth found water at 6–81 m.

Ground: 70% porous aquifer, high productivity; 31% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.1% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 345 mm a year (1971–2000), about 330 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.2 °C, about 33.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 70 a year, about 46 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Boecillo · Mojados · Aldeamayor de San Martín · Aldea de San Miguel · Viana de Cega · Valdestillas · Portillo · Matapozuelos