The Water Administration granted water approval to the companies "Beppler&Partners", "Stablo" and "Irenia Investments" for the main project for one of the 14 outbuildings on the banks of the Tara River, near the "Bjanka" hotel in Kolasin and on the edge of the Sports Zone, which is among Kolašin already called "Kolašin on the water".
Building A1, conceived as a greenhouse, for which a water permit was obtained, according to the documentation available to "Vijesti", would be built closer to the water compared to the current protective "gabion" on the coast, which is 15 meters from the river. Previously, urban planning and technical conditions (UTU) were issued for Sojenica in the Kolašin Secretariat for Spatial Planning. Also, the chief state architect approved the conceptual solution of the architectural project for that building.
However, after returning twice for revision, the committee of the Kolasin Secretariat for Environmental Protection rejected the Environmental Impact Assessment Report for the soybean farm on the banks of the Tara River. As "Vijesti" was told in that secretariat, the Elaborate was initially sent back for revision "in order, among other things, to determine that the facility was not planned in the Tara River watershed". After two times the document is not aligned with the suggestions, that commission will no longer decide on it.
In the document, which considers the possibility of connecting the greenhouses and other facilities planned by the investors on the banks of the Tara River, to the hydrotechnical infrastructure, the company Vodovod i Kanalizacija notes that there is no constructed fecal sewage system in that part of the city. The company says that, although in the amendments to the DUP "Centar Kolašin" in subzone D3, where the outbuildings are planned, the fecal sewage pipeline does not exist, nor has it ever existed at that location. They also explain that waste water from buildings on neighboring plots is disposed of in septic tanks. In subzone D3, as they wrote, there is no atmospheric sewage system.
A special problem, according to the assessment of the Water and Sewerage Department, is the supply of water to such a large tourist settlement. They explain that providing water for the outbuildings of that area would threaten the regular supply of current consumers.
"Depadance A1 is part of the first phase of the realization of a larger unit, which is defined by the conceptual solution 'Sports-tourist dependencies' from December 2021, within which the architectural-urban concept of sports-tourist dependencies and hotels is given and which foresees a total capacity of 14 facility department. Depadans A1, together with two other buildings from the next phases of the complex's realization, was designed as a row of greenhouses on pillars, with a more dispersed physical structure that illustrates the erosion of the built environment closer to the rivers. This impression is reinforced by the kalkani with dynamic terraces that extend in the direction of the Tara River", it is written in the description of the first sojenica.
All outbuildings are planned on the urban planning plot (UP) 3, within the scope of the DUP "Kolašin centar", zone D. The total area of the UP is 66.053 square meters and is owned by the investor. According to the DUP, the center on that plot is to be built with a total gross area of over 107.000 m2, which can have a basement, ground floor, two floors and an attic.
Elaborate from the Secretariat forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency
According to the documentation that Vijesti had access to, the report was forwarded from the Kolasin Secretariat to the Environmental Protection Agency.
"According to the interpretation of Article 5 of the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment (Official Gazette of Montenegro, No. 075/18) by the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism, as well as the Environmental Protection Agency, we received information that the consent of the Chief State or the Chief City Architect to the project documentation relevant to whether the impact assessment procedure is carried out by the competent state administration body or the competent local administration body. Bearing in mind that the Chief State Architect gave consent to the tourist facilities, the cases were forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency for further action", they wrote to the investors from the Kolasin secretariat.
It remains unclear whether that body has so far decided on the Elaborate beyond its authority.
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