Toral de los Vados

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 2004. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 98% of the municipality.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 6 wells and boreholes in Toral de los Vados. Half of the 4 with a depth found water at 5–6 m.

Ground: 35% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 30% porous aquifer, high productivity; 22% practically impermeable; 8.8% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 20% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 21% in the 500-year one.
• 16% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1% 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 100% of homes; fibre 81%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 704 mm a year (1971–2000), about 630 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.5 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 60 a year, about 39 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Carracedelo · Corullón · Carucedo · Sobrado · Cacabelos · Villafranca del Bierzo