Magaz de Pisuerga

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 2013. 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 Magaz de Pisuerga. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 34% porous aquifer, high productivity; 34% practically impermeable; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 8.8% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 11% in the 500-year one.
• 5.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 0.6% 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 76%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 363 mm a year (1971–2000), about 347 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 32.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 79 a year, about 55 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Soto de Cerrato · Reinoso de Cerrato · Venta de Baños · Villamuriel de Cerrato · Villalobón · Palencia · Villamediana