Langreo

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.

DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2011. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Langreo. Its depth: 19 m. Measured yields (5): 21–41 L/s, the middle half. 37 springs are recorded.

Ground: 70% practically impermeable; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only; 8.6% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.4% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 5 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 70 ha in all, the latest in 2023.
• 3.1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.3% in the 500-year one.
• 1.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 15% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 15% 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 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,007 mm a year (1971–2000), about 855 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.3 °C, about 24.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 29 a year, about 14 by 2041–2070.

Around it

San Martín del Rey Aurelio · Mieres · Noreña · Siero · Oviedo