Pozos de Hinojo

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 1990. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Pozos de Hinojo. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 72–87 m. 5 springs are recorded.

Ground: 83% practically impermeable; 18% 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).
• 5.3% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone II: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 94% of homes; fibre 26%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 468 mm a year (1971–2000), about 441 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 33 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 58 a year, about 36 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Moronta · El Cubo de Don Sancho · Villares de Yeltes · Peralejos de Abajo · Peralejos de Arriba · Vitigudino · Cipérez