Navalcarnero

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2009. 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 170 wells and boreholes in Navalcarnero. Half of the 169 with a depth found water at 7–25 m. 15 springs are recorded.

Ground: 98% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,247 ha, in 2025.
• 1% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 19% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 19% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 370 mm a year (1971–2000), about 349 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.5 °C, about 35.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 40 a year, about 19 by 2041–2070.

Around it

El Álamo · Arroyomolinos · Sevilla la Nueva · Casarrubios del Monte · Villamanta · Batres · Villaviciosa de Odón · Móstoles