Villafranca de los Caballeros

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla-La Mancha requires at least 1.5 ha for a new house on rustic land.

Other cases: 3 ha on protected rustic land.

Orden 4/2020, art. 5. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1991. 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 35 wells and boreholes in Villafranca de los Caballeros. Half of the 34 with a depth found water at 6–13 m.

Ground: 48% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 25% porous aquifer, high productivity; 8.5% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 7.6% practically impermeable; 6.7% surface water body.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 24% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 27% in the 500-year one.
• 7.2% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 13% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 9% of the municipality is a protected natural area, whose plan limits what can be done.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 96%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 287 mm a year (1971–2000), about 267 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32.3 °C, about 36.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 54 a year, about 32 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Quero · Camuñas · Villacañas · Madridejos · Herencia · Alcázar de San Juan