Villaquirán de los Infantes

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 1999. 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 6 wells and boreholes in Villaquirán de los Infantes. Half of the 6 with a depth found water at 4–5 m.

Ground: 51% practically impermeable; 19% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 16% low permeability, local groundwater only; 11% porous 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).
• 0.7% 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 81%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 410 mm a year (1971–2000), about 387 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27 °C, about 30.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 86 a year, about 61 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villaldemiro · Los Balbases · Tamarón · Villazopeque · Pampliega