Motilla del Palancar

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 1994. 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 9 wells and boreholes in Motilla del Palancar. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 185–250 m.

Ground: 54% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 20% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 16% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 9.3% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.7% in the 500-year one.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 394 mm a year (1971–2000), about 355 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.8 °C, about 34.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 59 a year, about 35 by 2041–2070.

Around it

El Peral · Gabaldón · Campillo de Altobuey · Pozorrubielos de la Mancha · Alarcón · Iniesta