Valdepolo

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 2006. 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.

Catastro records 6 homes on rustic plots in Valdepolo, 2 of them built before 1950, and 220 farm buildings. See them on the map →

Towns where a new house is allowed →

Maps of Spain: Old farmhouses

Is there water?

IGME records 15 wells and boreholes in Valdepolo. Half of the 15 with a depth found water at 5–92 m. 23 springs are recorded.

Ground: 60% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 27% low permeability, local groundwater only; 12% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

Maps of Spain: Wells · Aquifers

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.4% in the 500-year one.
• 0.7% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 4.8% 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.

Maps of Spain: Flood zones · Radon · Wildfires

Living here

• 4G reaches 98% of homes; fibre 74%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 445 mm a year (1971–2000), about 418 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 26.6 °C, about 30.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 97 a year, about 70 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Santa María del Monte de Cea · Villasabariego · El Burgo Ranero · Gradefes · Villamartín de Don Sancho · Mansilla de las Mulas · Santas Martas · Cubillas de Rueda