Socuéllamos

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 1998. 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 225 wells and boreholes in Socuéllamos. Half of the 219 with a depth found water at 6–44 m. 4 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 33% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 19% porous aquifer, high productivity; 7.7% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 8.2% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 15% in the 500-year one.
• 2.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.6% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 328 mm a year (1971–2000), about 300 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.6 °C, about 36.8 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 53 a year, about 30 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Tomelloso · Las Mesas · Pedro Muñoz · Mota del Cuervo · Villarrobledo · Alhambra