Tenants of part of Beogradska Street in Podgorica gathered today in front of the construction site of the future four-story building that is emerging in their neighborhood, around the buildings at number 51, dissatisfied because the construction of a residential building with an area of over 4.300 square meters is allowed near their private houses.
At that location, as they said, there was an old house, the plan allowed the construction of another.
Instead, they point out, there is now a building with over 40 apartments.
According to the Detailed Urban Plan "Gorica C" from 2005, as told by Srđan Laković, two family residential buildings were planned here. Laković reminded that in 2019, a new DUP was drawn up, which was given the "green light" by the city parliament and the competent ministry.
"Even though it was passed outside the law. That means outside the law that the law mandates that the 'revival' of the DUP, which was done then, can be done without violating the basic urban planning parameters, without changing them, and this refers to degree of occupancy, construction, number of floors... Unfortunately, in this case, they were drastically changed and based on that, the investor received approval, that is, registered the construction," Laković told reporters.
He told the investor, city and state authorities that rights cannot be derived from something that was not enacted in a legal, "not to say criminal" way.
The investor in that location is "CK Group Investment" from Podgorica.
It received the approval of the Chief State Architect in mid-June last year, while the construction was reported to the Urban-Building Inspection of the Ministry of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism on November 10.
As stated on the construction board, the building is being built on urban plots 2b.19 (KP 2532/2 and 2531/1) 2b.20 (KP 2532/1), Block 2, sub-block b, in the scope of DUP "Gorica C ", KO Podgorica II.
According to the same data, the works started in December 2022, while completion is planned for September 2024.
The tenants previously turned to the urban planning and construction inspection, which, Laković says, determined that everything is in order.
Then they turned to the Department of Ecology, Spatial Planning and Urbanism with the initiative to put the DUP "Gorica C" out of force and stop construction on the urban plots UP19 and UP20 of that plan. The initiative for the evaluation of the correctness and legality of the preparation of the DUP "Gorica C" was sent to the Chamber of Engineers.
The Ministry and the Chamber have not yet commented on the tenants' initiatives.
"I repeat, no one can derive rights from something that was enacted illegally. The investor will certainly have the right to turn to the state authorities, to ask them for some compensation. This DUP must be put out of force and all works must be stopped" , said Laković on behalf of the gathered tenants.
He also announced that he would file criminal charges against processors and those who accepted DUP.
"I am sure that we will succeed in fighting for our rights, we are asking for housing and living as planned in 2005, so that no one is left without light, water, or electricity," he said.
He also believes that the existing infrastructure cannot support similar projects, and he also said that they received the opinion of Podgorica's "Vodovod" that they cannot connect a facility such as the building that is springing up in their neighborhood to the water supply network.
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