Valle de Santibáñez

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 2016. 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 Santibáñez. Its depth: 109 m.

Ground: 43% low permeability, local groundwater only; 42% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.4% practically impermeable; 6.9% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 91% of homes; fibre 91%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 503 mm a year (1971–2000), about 465 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 24.5 °C, about 28.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 90 a year, about 63 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Huérmeces · Pedrosa de Río Úrbel · Susinos del Páramo · Las Hormazas · Alfoz de Quintanadueñas · Isar · Merindad de Río Ubierna