Choice of the Council of Ministers in favor of the Municipality of Athens concerning the permitted heights of buildings – 2024-07-18 08:41:35

Mayor of Athens: “The town cannot stand any extra cement”

After the announcement of the Council’s determination, the Mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas, mentioned:

“The town cannot stand any extra cement and it could possibly’t stand new behemoths. The social contract we’ve signed with the residents of Athens for a humane, useful, inexperienced and secure metropolis is being carried out. It’s a historic second, an excellent victory for Athens. We react to ‘inexperienced’ skyscrapers, to every part that worsens the residing circumstances of the residents and degrades the prevailing pure and residential surroundings. We defend the correct of residents to resolve by which metropolis they wish to dwell.”

The Background of the Choice

Two months in the past, with the choice 273/2024, the Municipal Council of Athens decided that, till the issuance of the PD approving the Native City Planning Plan, the b.d. of 30-8/9-9-1955. To be able to keep away from the creation of fait accompli, it was deemed acceptable to not use the particular bonus provisions offered for by the NOK inside the district of the Municipality of Athens.

The Municipality of Athens acquired a related opinion from Professor Nikos Alivizatos and Ms. Eleousa Kiosopoulou, which concluded that:

“The Municipality of Athens and particularly the Building Directorate are certain and even immediately, in response to articles 95§5 of the Structure and 1 of Regulation 3068/2001 by determination 705/2020 of the Plenary Session of the Council of State and should, due to this fact, chorus from issuing constructing permits that approve the development of buildings in extra of what’s allowed by the b.d. of 30.8.1955 within the quantity.”

The Choice of the Council of Ministers and the Subsequent Actions

The Council of State as soon as once more confirms its jurisprudence, to which the Municipality of Athens complies, on the identical time justifying the place of the municipal authority on the necessity to forestall overbuilding and the technique it adopted primarily based on the final curiosity.

The choice of the Municipal Council is absolutely revived from the time it got here into impact and the Municipality can now take any authorized measure for its execution, as expressly said within the short-term injunction granted.

This improvement is a vital victory for the town of Athens and the hassle for a sustainable and humane city surroundings, with out the development of latest gigantic buildings that may additional burden the standard of lifetime of the residents.