Zorita de la Frontera

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: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1996. The region's planning viewer ↗

The SIU does not map land classes here: the town plan is the source.

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

Is there water?

IGME records 22 wells and boreholes in Zorita de la Frontera. Half of the 22 with a depth found water at 41–200 m.

Ground: 97% 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).
• 58% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Radon zone I: new and restored homes need radon protection by law.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 80%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 301 mm a year (1971–2000), about 290 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 32.2 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 67 a year, about 45 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Palaciosrubios · Poveda de las Cintas · El Campo de Peñaranda · Paradinas de San Juan · Rágama · Horcajo de las Torres