Peñamellera Alta

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Asturias allows a new house on rustic land only where the town plan provides for it.

DL 1/2004, art. 124. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2010. 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 Peñamellera Alta. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 14 springs are recorded.

Ground: 40% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 21% practically impermeable; 13% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 60 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,019 ha in all, the latest in 2026.
• 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.
• 0.5% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 18% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 86% of homes; fibre 46%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 1,312 mm a year (1971–2000), about 1,106 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 20.6 °C, about 22.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 40 a year, about 23 by 2041–2070.

Around it

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