Villamayor de Santiago

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 1994. 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 27 wells and boreholes in Villamayor de Santiago. Half of the 25 with a depth found water at 5–60 m. 2 springs are recorded.

Ground: 37% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 35% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 19% practically impermeable; 5.1% karstic or fissured aquifer, high productivity.

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).
• 2% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 99%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 334 mm a year (1971–2000), about 309 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.2 °C, about 35.3 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 55 a year, about 32 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Hontanaya · Pozorrubio de Santiago · Villanueva de Alcardete · Puebla de Almenara · Horcajo de Santiago · Los Hinojosos · Almendros · Cabezamesada