Vega de Ruiponce

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1983. 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 Vega de Ruiponce. That is not proof there is no water: ask local drillers.

Ground: 90% low permeability, local groundwater only; 9.6% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 4.5% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 5.6% in the 500-year one.
• 0.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 95%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 348 mm a year (1971–2000), about 330 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.5 °C, about 31.7 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 81 a year, about 57 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cabezón de Valderaduey · Villanueva de la Condesa · Villagómez la Nueva · Fontihoyuelo · Villacarralón · Villalba de la Loma · Melgar de Abajo · Saelices de Mayorga