Rustic land in Spain, municipality by municipality › Madrid
Loeches
Madrid · Madrid region · 44 km²
What rustic land in Loeches allows and holds, for the municipality as a whole. For a particular plot, open it in the map: the report answers for that exact point.
Can you build a house on rustic land?
The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.
Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.
Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1997. 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 Loeches. Half of the 3 with a depth found water at 23–50 m.
Ground: 56% low permeability, local groundwater only; 31% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 8% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.3% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.
Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.
What to watch for
- One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 756 ha, in 2024.
- 4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 4.7% in the 500-year one.
- 2.7% 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 98%. Averages for the municipality.
- Rain: 332 mm a year (1971–2000), about 313 by 2041–2070.
- Summer highs: 31.6 °C, about 35.9 °C by 2041–2070.
- Frost days: 49 a year, about 27 by 2041–2070.
Around it
Mejorada del Campo · Velilla de San Antonio · Torres de la Alameda · Campo Real · San Fernando de Henares · Pozuelo del Rey · Arganda del Rey
From IGME, MITECO, SNCZI, EFFIS, the SIU, the Building Code, NCSE-02, SETID and AdapteCCa; summarised 9 October 2026. Information, not a certificate: the town hall has the final word.