Olías del Rey

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 1999. 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 6 wells and boreholes in Olías del Rey. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 16–134 m.

Ground: 79% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 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: 274 mm a year (1971–2000), about 258 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 33.1 °C, about 37.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 43 a year, about 23 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Magán · Bargas · Cabañas de la Sagra · Yunclillos · Mocejón · Toledo