Villarrubia 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 1985. 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 8 wells and boreholes in Villarrubia de Santiago. Half of the 7 with a depth found water at 12–50 m. One spring is recorded.

Ground: 31% karstic or fissured aquifer, medium productivity; 25% low permeability, local groundwater only; 21% practically impermeable; 19% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• 2 fires since 2016 reached the municipality: 25 ha in all, the latest in 2025.
• 2.4% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 3.7% in the 500-year one.
• 1.6% of the municipality is preferential flow zone, where new building is generally banned.
• 38% 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 98%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 309 mm a year (1971–2000), about 290 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 32 °C, about 36.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 52 a year, about 30 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Noblejas · Colmenar de Oreja · Santa Cruz de la Zarza · Villarejo de Salvanés · Villatobas