In an insecurity regime of about 11,000 settlements all over Greece – what does the Secretary General of Urban Planning say
With the creation of intermediate residential zones, “uses control areas”, in which the excerpts will be from 2 to 4 acres and one can build, provided that there is a person on a communal path, planning the Ministry of the Environment and Energy to provide a solution, to those who stay outside the borders.
These areas will be determined after a special plan, as part of the preparation of urban planning plans, reports of the Kathimerini newspaper. According to the report, the ministry will create an intermediate residential zone, such as the one banned by the CoE, but by a different name, in which the artificialities will be less than 4 acres, thereby re -enacted the abolished deviations to off -plan construction.
The case is handled by the Secretary General of Urban Planning, Efthimi Bakoyannis, who, speaking to ERT, made it clear that nothing was changed from yesterday to the construction of the country’s settlements. As he said, “Urban legislation and urban planning are a very complex object and I obviously understand the difficulty that is perceived by ordinary citizens, even by engineers who are not specialized in urban planning issues. So many times there is a diffusion of information that does not respond to real data. “
He went on to say that “we have decided as a government to make local urban planning plans in the country, so as to resolve a number of issues and pathogens of the country, which are land uses, building terms, issues related to environmental protection, off -plan construction and demarcation. Why the demarcation of settlements? Because in essence, based on the decisions of the Council of State, the boundaries have been deemed non -existent. So we said, in order to have a law security in urban planning, to submit a presidential decree with specifications. Therefore, this Presidential Decree sets out the specifications that will define the settlements from local urban planning plans. These specifications are not immediately applicable. That is, we did not wake up one day and changed the regime that applies to the construction in the settlements. This Presidential Decree gives the Ministry and scholars who have chosen the way and methodology and scientific criteria that scholars will go to in each settlement will record the real data. “
He noted that the settlements currently under an insecurity regime, which has emerged due to the demarcation of the prefectures, are approximately 11,000. Called to comment on a publication, according to which by changing the demarcation of settlements in the plan of properties, they converted to off -plan properties, he replied that it did not apply and explained: “Today that this report came out, those who have land plots and go to the urban planning of the planning From the demarcation of the prefect to the present day what the publication says. I may have explained to you at the beginning that urban planning legislation is a complex legislation and urban planning has many peculiarities. Many times even special engineers find it difficult to understand. It is that the specifications we now have with the Presidential Decree will give us a methodology per settlement. However, nothing has changed since yesterday until today in the construction of the country’s settlements. “
“Except for the settlements of Rethymnon and Pelion that have been canceled by the Council of State, which for some time, that is, since 2019, these settlements have not issued building permits. For all other settlements this is not about this PD with changing the conditions of construction that are currently in force. I explain to you once again that this PD is the specifications on how to design and delineate the settlements from now on. Today the conditions of construction we had from the Prefects apply and we will continue to have them until the presidential decrees of the settlements are made with the specifications we will apply with this Presidential Decree. “
