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A two-year “brake” on the issuance of constructing permits that make use of the constructing “bonuses” of the New Constructing Regulation (NOK- Regulation 4067/2012) for the heights of buildings and extra constructing components, is anticipated to be permitted immediately by the town council of the Municipality of Athens for the world of ​​the capital.

The difficulty shall be launched and voted on at immediately’s twenty third assembly with the suggestion of the vice-mayor for City Revitalization and Resilience of the Municipality of Athens, Mrs. Maros Evaggelidou.

Constructing bonus

Particularly, the deputy mayor paperwork the reasoning behind the choice to partially droop the granting of constructing permits for 2 years, in view of the completion of the brand new Native City Planning Plan (TPS) for Athens. The research was commissioned in September 2023 and shall be accomplished on the finish of 2025 with the intention of defining new constructing circumstances and restrictions for all the municipality, but additionally per residence. As Mrs. Evaggelidou factors out, the Municipality of Athens is not going to be confronted with fait accompli, which can distort the formulation of proposals through the research course of.

The brand new city plan

In keeping with her, the research being carried out for the brand new city planning plan of the Municipality of Athens is on the stage, throughout which the heights and constructing components are reviewed, city planning parameters that could be redefined. “Due to this fact, because of the weighty city planning significance of the difficulty, together with the time-consuming procedures that govern the preparation of the TPS research and so as to forestall phenomena, which can represent an inhibiting consider drawing conclusions, it turns into crucial to instantly promote the imposition of a partial suspension of the granting of constructing permits licenses for 2 years”, it’s identified within the proposal to the Municipal Council.

This suspension of constructing permits will concern the relevant most permitted heights that exceed these outlined within the royal decree of 1955 (F.E.Okay. 249 A709.09.1955) “on constructing circumstances in Athens”, the “bonuses” of constructing at heights and within the quantity of buildings offered for by the NOK and the relevant constructing components which can be larger than the common constructing components outlined by the Normal City Planning Plan of the Municipality of Athens (F.E.Okay. 80 D71988), excluding the areas of the Municipality of Athens which can be ruled by particular safety orders.

No to common suspension

In keeping with what Mrs. Evaggelidou mentions in her documentation, a common suspension of the issuance of constructing permits will not be proposed so as to not cease the development exercise utterly and to restrict the consequences on the course of the financial system. As identified, the partial suspension can act as a “security web” in opposition to accelerated development phenomena, earlier than the institution of the TPS, so as to make the most of favorable rules that multiply the sq. footage.

Within the meantime, yesterday, on the Religious Middle of the Municipality of Athens, the primary occasion was held for the change of opinions and proposals, within the context of the session on the Native City Planning Plan, with the participation of executives from native, regional and central providers of the Administration, members of businesses and organizations energetic in space and with residents.

During which circumstances is the issuance of constructing permits “frozen”.

The imposition of a partial suspension of the granting of constructing permits for 2 years, throughout the administrative limits of the Municipality of Athens, will concern:

A) The heights of buildings, above the utmost permitted, outlined by the Decree of 1955, excluding the areas ruled by provisions of particular constructing circumstances.

B) The implementation of the provisions of the NOK that present the opportunity of rising the constructing issue as much as 25% with environmental compensations e.g. limitation of the protection of the plot, and so on. Additionally, those that suggest the demolition of flooring or a constructing with a rise within the permitted constructing issue of the plot or the share of protection. The provisions regarding rising the utmost permitted top with varied compensations (e.g. floor ground area for parking, planted roofs, vitality cover, and so on.) or the development bonuses given for the creation of buildings with nearly zero consumption are additionally frozen vitality.

C) The constructing components above the common constructing components, offered by the present Normal City Planning Plan of the Municipality of Athens (F.E.Okay. 80 D704.02.1988), in the entire space of ​​the Municipality of Athens.

The consequences on the town

As Ms. Evaggelidou characteristically factors out in her introduction, the horizontal willpower of the permitted top, based on the NOK, quantities to the biggest space of ​​the Municipality of Athens at 32 meters and together with the cumulative use of advantages of the NOK for added top and development of buildings, it’s challenged as incompatible with the town’s reduction and constructed setting in historic elements of the city material. In keeping with the deputy mayor, it causes a deterioration within the circumstances of daylight and air flow of the buildings in streets of diminished width and an alteration of the physiognomy of the town as it’s a material in its majority already configured with decrease heights of earlier rules together with a scaled association of the permitted quantity (obligatory recesses and so on. .).

Additionally, the rise in constructing that has led to in Athens the mix of top and elevated constructing components shall be put below evaluation through the preparation of the research of the brand new city plan for the capital because it has led to the vitality burden, to the discount of the out there communal and public areas, in exceeding the carrying capability of the infrastructure, within the proliferation of auto visitors, within the alteration of the character of sure neighborhoods, and so on.

The opposite municipalities

Extra typically, in opposition to the constructing “bonuses” of the NOK, a guerrilla marketing campaign of many mayors of Attica has begun, as early because the spring of 2023, with the primary municipalities that appealed to the courts being the municipalities of Alimos and Vari, Voula, Vouliagmeni, round which they’ve rallied and the mayors of Kifisia, Amarousi, Papagos Cholargos, Chalandrio. The case is anticipated to be closed definitively on October 11, when the query of abolishing the advantages of the NOK shall be determined, barring unexpected circumstances, by the Plenary of the Council of State (StE).

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