Pedrajas de San Esteban

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 2012. 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 12 wells and boreholes in Pedrajas de San Esteban. Half of the 12 with a depth found water at 5–8 m.

Ground: 29% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 27% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 26% porous aquifer, high productivity; 18% practically impermeable.

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: 342 mm a year (1971–2000), about 326 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.8 °C, about 32.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 72 a year, about 48 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Íscar · Megeces · Alcazarén · Aguasal · Villaverde de Íscar · Olmedo