Whether the Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism (MORT) will accept the request of the municipalities to extend the deadline for the legalization of illegal construction until October 2020 will be known only when the received requests for legalization are processed and when the data from the aerial survey of the entire territory of the state is compared with cadastral and planning documents.
"The bodies responsible for the legalization procedure by local self-government units are processing the received requests for legalization, of which there are about 51.000, and the aerial survey of the entire territory of Montenegro has been completed and these data will be overlapped with the cadastral and planning documents. After that, those documents will be overlapped with data on the number of submitted requests and the procedure will result in a precise record of illegal buildings.
Then it will be possible to give a detailed analysis of the situation in the area and look at all the possible possibilities", was officially told to "Vijesti" from MORT when asked if they would accept the municipality's request.
The Union of Municipalities of Montenegro asked the Government to amend 17 articles of the Law on Spatial Planning and Building Construction, as well as clarification on the application of another nine articles. Part of that initiative is to postpone the submission of the request for the legalization of buildings, which expired on July 16 of this year, until the date of adoption of the state general regulation plan, which according to the law on planning and construction of buildings should be adopted by October 2020. MORT said that consideration of the proposed changes is ongoing.
The Union of Municipalities explained to the Government that the proposal to extend the deadline for legalization refers only to the buildings that are on the ortho photo, which is taken for the purposes of legalization, and not to newly built buildings, as well as that the deadline for submission of requests was proposed in order to could include the summer period when the diaspora from the north and foreign citizens who own real estate on the coast predominantly stay in Montenegro.
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