Villahermosa

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 1993. 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 46 wells and boreholes in Villahermosa. Half of the 42 with a depth found water at 5–17 m. 12 springs are recorded.

Ground: 78% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity; 14% low permeability, local groundwater only; 7.9% practically impermeable.

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).
• 19% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• 1.4% 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: 406 mm a year (1971–2000), about 363 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.2 °C, about 35.4 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 49 a year, about 26 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Fuenllana · Carrizosa · Alhambra · Ossa de Montiel · Villanueva de la Fuente · El Bonillo · Montiel