Villanueva de las Manzanas

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 2009. 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 2 wells and boreholes in Villanueva de las Manzanas. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 253–345 m.

Ground: 65% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 35% porous aquifer, high productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• One fire since 2016 reached the municipality: 1 ha, in 2025.
• 24% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 30% in the 500-year one.
• 19% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 92% of homes; fibre 86%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 364 mm a year (1971–2000), about 343 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.4 °C, about 31.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 90 a year, about 65 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Campo de Villavidel · Corbillos de los Oteros · Villaturiel · Vega de Infanzones · Mansilla Mayor · Mansilla de las Mulas · Cabreros del Río · Santas Martas