Santa Marta de Tormes

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: Plan General (a full town plan), from 2012. 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 9 wells and boreholes in Santa Marta de Tormes. Half of the 9 with a depth found water at 10–85 m.

Ground: 85% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 14% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 22% in the 500-year one.
• 12% 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 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 324 mm a year (1971–2000), about 310 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.7 °C, about 32.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 69 a year, about 46 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Carbajosa de la Sagrada · Pelabravo · Cabrerizos · Salamanca