The Podgorica company "PS Gradnja", which built lamellas in the Zabjelo settlement below Ljubovića, for which the inspection issued a demolition decision a few years ago, will demolish the residential building Lamela C, whose investor it is.
The tenants announced that they will inform the foreign embassies about everything at the beginning of the week, because "all this acts as a combination of public authorities and investors, in which the apartment owners and their families are collateral damage".
"We decided to proceed with the demolition of Lamela C in accordance with the decision of the construction inspection, and we informed the apartment owners about this. The fact is that 'PS gradnja' sold all the apartments in that building, 83 of them, of which 90 percent are registered in the public registers-cadastre to the buyers to whom we sold the apartments, while the registration process is ongoing for the remaining 10 percent. Their reaction is dramatic, to put it mildly, and they believe that the decision of the construction inspection refers to the building owned by 'PS Gradnja', and not to the property of third parties", they told "Vijesta" from "PS Gradnja".
As they said, they received information about the planned demolition on December 20 from a police officer, who told them that a request for assistance had been sent to them. Then, as they added, they were also told that they could leave the demolition of the disputed building to the state or do it themselves. They decided, they told the newsroom yesterday, to act on the decision of the inspection themselves.
The tenant's representative announced yesterday that the investor will start the demolition himself Cedomir Radicevic.
In the press release he delivered to the media, he stated, among other things, that they had received information "that 'PS Gradnja', as an investor, is preparing... to demolish Lamela C, which is the property of condominium owners".
"The construction inspection of the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property has announced the demolition of Lamela C, a building under Ljubović, which was built by the Podgorica company 'PS Gradnja'. The object in question, and with it 83 apartments in Lamela C, are the property of condominium owners. According to the law, every sales contract was concluded with a notary, who did not warn any buyer that the building was slated for demolition, because the building inspection did not record its demolition decision in the cadastre, thus misleading all buyers," said Radičević.
In the announcement, he also states that the current owners of the apartments bought and concluded pre-contracts with "PS Gradnja" "under conditions in which the investor had a permit for the solution, a construction permit for the construction of the first phase and a preliminary project certified by the competent Ministry, as well as his main project .
"After the registration of the building in the public books, 83 of them, in Lamela C, concluded notarized purchase and sale contracts and were not warned by the notary that the building was slated for demolition for the reason that such a record - notation was not, nor is it today, recorded in the real estate deeds, with which they legally bought their apartments and duly registered them", says Radičević.
He adds that by this, and by allowing the investor to continue construction, despite the demolition announcements, apartment buyers were further misled.
"This story gets an almost unbelievable epilogue when we received information on Thursday that 'PS Gradnja', in the capacity of an investor, is preparing to demolish Lamela C, which is the property of the condominium owners," says the tenant's representative.
He also adds that the buyers of real estate in the disputed lamella are buyers "with a dominantly difficult socio-economic situation".
Radičević said that the tenants will inform all embassies about this on Tuesday at the latest.
"Convinced that all of this works as a combination of public authorities and investors, in which apartment owners and their families are collateral damage," said Radičević in a statement.
The construction of the disputed residential block of the investor "PS Gradnja", known as slats B, C and D, began in 2017. The slats were built on urban plots 130 and 51 and literally lean against the building of "V&B Invest" (UP 46), which was occupied 2016
The Administration for Cadastre and State Property told "Vijesta" in December 2021 that the residential building of the investor "PS Gradnja" in the settlement of Zabjelo was registered in the cadastre based on the request of that company and, among other things, the construction permit from 2014, which was issued for garage in the basement of the building. They said then that no such permit was issued for the ground floor, five floors and attics.
According to data from the cadastre, both the legal building and the disputed lamellas of "PS Gradnje" are registered on the same plot (3827/7, KO Podgorica III), so their apartments in the building of "V&B Invest" have burdens and restrictions. The disputed building is registered in the real estate register as building 2, while the legal building, "V&B Investa", is listed as building 1 in the same LN.
Minister of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property Janko Odović he announced a few days ago on the X network (formerly Twitter) that Lamela C on Zabjelo will be demolished "when funds are provided in the budget".
"Accordingly, a budget proposal has been sent to the Ministry of Finance with a request for a significant increase in funds for the next year, which will allow us to better respond to all the demolition decisions we have," he announced on December 11.
As previously announced by the organization "Kana, ko ako ne arhitekt", for lamellas B and D, the first decisions on banning construction were made on April 4, 2018, and five months later the inspector made a decision on demolition. For lamella C, the first decision rejecting the construction application and prohibiting construction was made on January 31, 2019. The demolition decision for that lamella was made on March 20 of the same year.
It is not the first time that the demolition of disputed slats has been announced. However, the disputed slats were not demolished because a group of citizens would have prevented it, or there was no support from the Waterworks, Electricity Distribution, the Center for Social Work and the Police Administration.
Instead of larger family houses, a huge building
The tenant's representative announced yesterday that the object in question was built in accordance with the Detailed Urban Plan of Zabjelo-Ljubović.
From the organization "Kana, ko ako ne architekt", they said yesterday that this plan has since been put out of force and that "this compliance simply does not exist, nor has it ever existed".
They added that the area on which that block was built, according to the Zabjelo-Ljubović DUP, consists of seven urban plots, that for three the plan envisages the purpose of 'individual housing with activities' and a maximum of four floors above ground, and for the remaining four purpose of 'collective housing with activities', with a maximum of six floors above ground.
The disputed residential building, they add, is located on plots for which the plan foresees the use of "individual housing with activities" and, instead of the permitted maximum of four above-ground floors, that building has as many as eight.
"By which he violates the organization clearly defined by the DUP, by which, therefore, he violates the law. Buildings that were supposed to be larger family houses have grown into a huge building", according to "Kana".
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