Villazopeque

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 2014. 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 Villazopeque. Half of the 2 with a depth found water at 5 m.

Ground: 66% porous aquifer, high productivity; 16% practically impermeable; 12% low permeability, local groundwater only; 5.6% 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).
• 5.6% 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 94%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 392 mm a year (1971–2000), about 372 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 27.2 °C, about 31.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 84 a year, about 59 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Barrio de Muñó · Palazuelos de Muñó · Belbimbre · Villaquirán de los Infantes · Los Balbases · Pampliega