Valle de las Navas

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 1995. 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 one well or borehole in Valle de las Navas. Its depth: 115 m. 8 springs are recorded.

Ground: 26% practically impermeable; 24% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only; 15% porous aquifer, high productivity; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 1.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 1.6% in the 500-year one.
• 1.1% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 93% of homes; fibre 58%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 537 mm a year (1971–2000), about 491 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.5 °C, about 28.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 81 a year, about 56 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Quintanapalla · Monasterio de Rodilla · Hurones · Rublacedo de Abajo · Merindad de Río Ubierna · Villayerno Morquillas · Quintanilla Vivar · Carcedo de Bureba