San Esteban de Gormaz

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 1995. 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 5 wells and boreholes in San Esteban de Gormaz. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 90–201 m. 13 springs are recorded.

Ground: 71% low permeability, local groundwater only; 13% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.3% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.8% in the 500-year one.
• 1.4% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 94% of homes; fibre 63%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 384 mm a year (1971–2000), about 360 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28 °C, about 32.1 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 88 a year, about 62 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Miño de San Esteban · Fuentecambrón · Fresno de Caracena · Burgo de Osma-Ciudad de Osma · Langa de Duero · Liceras · Carrascosa de Abajo · Fuentearmegil