Villar del Olmo

Can you build a house on rustic land?

The Madrid region allows no new houses on rustic land. Restoring an existing or listed building is the way.

Ley 9/2001, art. 29. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Normas Subsidiarias (an older, simpler plan), from 1992. 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 one well or borehole in Villar del Olmo. Its depth: 7 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 68% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 20% practically impermeable; 7.7% porous aquifer, medium 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).
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 375 mm a year (1971–2000), about 352 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 30.3 °C, about 34.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 53 a year, about 30 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Nuevo Baztán · Olmeda de las Fuentes · Ambite · Orusco de Tajuña · Valdilecha · Pozuelo del Rey · Carabaña