La Pueblanueva

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 1982. 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 La Pueblanueva. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 74–110 m.

Ground: 99% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 261 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 8% in the 500-year one.
• 3% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 4.5% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 406 mm a year (1971–2000), about 381 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.7 °C, about 36.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 33 a year, about 15 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Montearagón · San Bartolomé de las Abiertas · Malpica de Tajo · Cebolla · San Martín de Pusa · Las Herencias · Talavera de la Reina