Villarejo de Salvanés

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 2003. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 99% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 16 wells and boreholes in Villarejo de Salvanés. Half of the 15 with a depth found water at 9–19 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 26% practically impermeable; 26% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 25% porous aquifer, medium productivity; 18% low permeability, local groundwater only.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 10 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 0.6% of the municipality lies in the 500-year flood zone.
• 0.6% 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 92%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 339 mm a year (1971–2000), about 317 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 31.7 °C, about 35.9 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 51 a year, about 29 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Villamanrique de Tajo · Belmonte de Tajo · Fuentidueña de Tajo · Valdaracete · Valdelaguna · Tielmes · Perales de Tajuña · Carabaña