Santa Cruz de Moya

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: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1992. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 2 wells and boreholes in Santa Cruz de Moya. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 120–126 m. 11 springs are recorded.

Ground: 49% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 19% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% practically impermeable; 11% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 0.7% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 0.7% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 41% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 75%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 396 mm a year (1971–2000), about 352 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.9 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 66 a year, about 40 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Graja de Campalbo · Aras de los Olmos · Casas Bajas · Landete · Moya · Casas Altas · Talayuelas · Titaguas