Santa Cristina de Valmadrigal

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 1993. 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 Santa Cristina de Valmadrigal. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 7–250 m.

Ground: 51% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 39% low permeability, local groundwater only; 10% 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).
• 18% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 76% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 368 mm a year (1971–2000), about 349 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27 °C, about 31 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 90 a year, about 66 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villamoratiel de las Matas · Matadeón de los Oteros · Valverde-Enrique · Vallecillo · Castrotierra de Valmadrigal · Santas Martas · El Burgo Ranero