Santa Cruz de la Zarza

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2002. 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 21 wells and boreholes in Santa Cruz de la Zarza. Half of the 19 with a depth found water at 24–40 m.

Ground: 60% low permeability, local groundwater only; 22% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 11% practically impermeable; 5.1% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.6% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 37% 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 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 337 mm a year (1971–2000), about 313 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.6 °C, about 34.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 52 a year, about 30 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Zarza de Tajo · Fuente de Pedro Naharro · Belinchón · Villarrubia de Santiago · Villamanrique de Tajo · Villatobas · Tarancón · Fuentidueña de Tajo