Peñalba de Ávila

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 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 one well or borehole in Peñalba de Ávila. Its depth: 110 m.

Ground: 78% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 11% practically impermeable; 8.7% 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 82% of homes; fibre 93%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 306 mm a year (1971–2000), about 289 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28 °C, about 32 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 63 a year, about 40 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Gotarrendura · Las Berlanas · Pozanco · Mingorría · Hernansancho · Monsalupe · Cardeñosa · Vega de Santa María