Administrative Court rules: Locals must ask about Skočiđevojka

The Administrative Court accepted the appeal of the "Reževići" Local Community and overturned the decision of the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism from July 2022, which prevented the local community from being a party in the procedure for granting approval for the conceptual design of a tourist residential complex that the Cypriot company "KDP promotion and investments limited" intended to build on the site of a former military base.

This is stated in the verdict, which Vijesti had access to.

"I welcome the ruling of the Administrative Court. Justice is slow but achievable. It is a big problem that such disputes are being resolved in three years, when they should be resolved through urgent proceedings within a month. I understand that the courts are overloaded with cases, but in a period of three years, irreparable damage can be caused to the state through a violation of administrative procedure in such important projects," Aleksandar Radović, president of the "Reževići" Local Community Council, told "Vijesti".

The project on Skočiđevojka was stopped by the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Heritage at the beginning of August last year, acting at the request of the Service of the Chief City Architect of the Municipality of Budva. The Administration then issued a decision to establish preliminary protection of the site of the former military complex "Skočiđevojka" for a period of one year.

Previously, at the beginning of July last year, the company received approval from the chief state architect for a modified and supplemented conceptual design for the future five-star tourist complex on Cape Skočiđevojka.

The planned number of floors of the hotel is a basement, a basement, a ground floor and three floors up to Po+Su+P+10 floors. Along the cliff itself, six annexes - villas, with a ground floor and one floor, have been designed. The total gross area of ​​all the designed buildings is 61.132,22 square meters.

Locals have been waging a legal battle for years, challenging the project, which was first approved in 2022, when the dimensions were much larger and the number of floors went up to 16. They have also filed criminal charges with the prosecutor's office on suspicion of corruption.