Medina de Pomar

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 1992. 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 Medina de Pomar. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 43% practically impermeable; 28% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 14% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 15 ha, in 2022.
• 6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 6% in the 500-year one.
• 4.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.1% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 682 mm a year (1971–2000), about 580 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.5 °C, about 27.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 73 a year, about 49 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Junta de Traslaloma · Merindad de Cuesta-Urria · Merindad de Montija · Villarcayo de Merindad de Castilla la Vieja · Valle de Losa · Valle de Tobalina