Prado de la Guzpeña

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 1986. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

No well or borehole is recorded in Prado de la Guzpeña. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 52% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 12% practically impermeable; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 9.3% 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).
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 99% of homes; fibre 58%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 804 mm a year (1971–2000), about 739 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25 °C, about 29 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 113 a year, about 82 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Valderrueda · Cistierna · Cebanico