Valencia de Don Juan

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 2007. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Valencia de Don Juan. Half of the 8 with a depth found water at 6–476 m.

Ground: 53% low permeability, local groundwater only; 30% porous aquifer, high productivity; 17% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 21% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 22% in the 500-year one.
• 18% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 1.3% 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: 356 mm a year (1971–2000), about 337 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.4 °C, about 31.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 86 a year, about 62 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villabraz · Pajares de los Oteros · Villademor de la Vega · Fresno de la Vega · San Millán de los Caballeros · Toral de los Guzmanes · Villaornate y Castro · Villamañán