In the government’s plan to address the issue that arose after the issuance of Presidential decree that puts a ‘brake’ In construction in settlements of less than 2,000 inhabitants across the territorythe Minister of the Environment and Energy was reported, Stavros Papastavrou Wednesday morning.
Speaking to SKAI, he said that “we are processing a legislation that will take on both the Council of State and the national need to strengthen local populations, taking into account demographic.”
As protothema.gr wrote in the morning The government is considering a horizontal arrangement that will concern the total of 10,000 settlements, although the construction criteria will not be single. The responsible minister, according to the same information line, examines a “demographic clause”, with the logic that they cannot desert areas of the region and limit the construction therein.
In this light of the reinforcement of decentralization, it is considered to take into account demographic evolution in the areas in question. Of course, there are other concerns that will be taken into account in the final processing, such as The carrying capacity of the areas and in this case the islands.
The Presidential Decree
Explaining what the Presidential Decree issued, Mr Papastavrou said that “he is coming to shield the property and settlements of a short -lived threat. There are decisions of the CoE in 2017 and 2019 that cancel the demarcation of the settlements, which was held in 1985 with the power of the Prefect and concerned all the settlements with below 2,000 inhabitants. The Council of State came in 2017 and canceled the jurisdiction of the prefectures saying that it had some degree of arbitrariness. By this decision 147 settlements in Crete and Pelion cannot issue a building permit. The same reason for the settlements can, however, be applied to everyone because everyone has been done by the Prefect. What the CoE also said is that local urban planning plans are needed. “
According to Mr Papastavrou, “the Presidential Decree creates conditions for these plans to be published so that there is no insecurity in the settlements. Everyone comes closer to the shielding of their property. “
In terms of the reactions causedthe Minister of Environment and Energy said that “the debate exists because there is an area – the zone C, the farthest of the settlements – which the CoE did not accept because they thought that the prefects had overwhelmed there. There is a real issue that has to do beyond urban planning and with the national effort not to desert the villages. “
As he typically said, “In Rethymnon and Pelion if we removed the PD they would be in the air.”
‘We protect the property’
Mr Papastavrou also noted that “we are intensively proceeding with the codification of urban planning legislation and whenever a law or provision comes in will change an article and you will not have to be a nuclear scientist to understand what has changed. At the same time we are digitizing the Land Registry and the “Aristos Doxiadis” plan for 227 local urban planning and 18 special planning plans.