Palenzuela

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1979. 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 4 wells and boreholes in Palenzuela. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 130–150 m.

Ground: 44% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 21% practically impermeable; 19% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.7% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.7% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.9% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.9% in the 500-year one.
• 1.9% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 44% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 395 mm a year (1971–2000), about 376 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.7 °C, about 31.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 83 a year, about 58 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Peral de Arlanza · Valles de Palenzuela · Villahán · Revilla Vallejera · Quintana del Puente · Tabanera de Cerrato · Santa María del Campo · Cordovilla la Real