Quintanar de la Sierra

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 2013. 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 Quintanar de la Sierra. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 85% low permeability, local groundwater only; 6.3% porous aquifer, high productivity; 5.8% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.4% in the 500-year one.
• 0.5% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 827 mm a year (1971–2000), about 750 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 22.7 °C, about 26.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 115 a year, about 79 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Regumiel de la Sierra · Neila · Vilviestre del Pinar · Canicosa de la Sierra · Palacios de la Sierra · Valle de Valdelaguna