Villalazán

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 2013. 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 13 wells and boreholes in Villalazán. Half of the 13 with a depth found water at 4–5 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 59% porous aquifer, high productivity; 26% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 15% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 45% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 51% in the 500-year one.
• 37% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 4.9% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 89%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 313 mm a year (1971–2000), about 300 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.5 °C, about 32.6 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 67 a year, about 43 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Fresno de la Ribera · Madridanos · Coreses · Villaralbo · Toro