Roperuelos del Páramo

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 2014. 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 7 wells and boreholes in Roperuelos del Páramo. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 12–14 m.

Ground: 72% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 5.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.7% in the 500-year one.
• 5.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 88%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 341 mm a year (1971–2000), about 321 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.9 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 83 a year, about 59 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Zotes del Páramo · Cebrones del Río · Pozuelo del Páramo · Quintana del Marco · La Antigua · Alija del Infantado