Payo de Ojeda

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 1998. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Payo de Ojeda. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 60% low permeability, local groundwater only; 32% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.6% porous aquifer, high productivity.

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).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 639 mm a year (1971–2000), about 594 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.8 °C, about 28.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 108 a year, about 78 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Olmos de Ojeda · Micieces de Ojeda · Dehesa de Montejo · Castrejón de la Peña