Valle de Valdebezana

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 2009. 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?

No well or borehole is recorded in Valle de Valdebezana. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 37% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 19% practically impermeable; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 12% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 12% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 4 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 90 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• No mapped flood zone (only studied rivers are mapped).
• 43% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 15% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 94% of homes; fibre 38%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 857 mm a year (1971–2000), about 728 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 23.2 °C, about 26.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 85 a year, about 59 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Merindad de Valdeporres · Alfoz de Bricia · Alfoz de Santa Gadea · Arija · Campoo de Yuso · Valle de Manzanedo · Las Rozas de Valdearroyo · Luena