Santo Domingo de Silos

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 2000. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Santo Domingo de Silos. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 3–70 m. 16 springs are recorded.

Ground: 46% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 24% low permeability, local groundwater only; 23% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 7.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 3,011 ha, in 2022.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 100% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 100% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 0%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 586 mm a year (1971–2000), about 541 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 25.8 °C, about 29.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 100 a year, about 71 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santibáñez del Val · Mamolar · Carazo · Espinosa de Cervera · Contreras · Arauzo de Miel · Ciruelos de Cervera