Patones

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1993. 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 Patones. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 120–212 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 71% practically impermeable; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.3% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 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.
• 16% 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 100% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 469 mm a year (1971–2000), about 438 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 29.5 °C, about 33.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 65 a year, about 41 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cervera de Buitrago · Torremocha de Jarama · El Atazar · El Berrueco · Uceda · Valdepeñas de la Sierra