The foundations of the private villas in the Mountain Center Kolašin 1450 were built under the state cable car, at a distance smaller than the legally prescribed distance from the belt where the K7 funicular worth nine million extends.
According to what the "Vijesti" reporter could see on the spot, the foundations are less than 12 meters away from the state cable car, which is illegal according to the Law on Ski Areas.
According to unofficial information from "Vijesti", it is about foundations for a single-family accommodation unit (chalet), and the investor is the company Ski resort Kolašin 1450, a businessman Zoran Bećirović.
According to Article 29 of the Law on ski resorts, "the ski center or third parties are prohibited from building or setting up objects of any kind, which are not in the function of the cable car, at a distance of up to 12 meters on both sides of the outer rope, in the case of rail cable cars up to 12 meters on both sides outer rails, as well as up to 12 meters from each station building (no-construction zone)"...
Construction legal, or...
The construction of villas is in accordance with the Special Purpose Spatial Plan (PPPN) of Bjelasica and Komovi, as well as with the urban-technical conditions (UTU) issued in 2013 by the then Ministry of Sustainable Development and Tourism. Consent to the conceptual solution (ID) of the architectural project for several chalets, during the past year and this year, was continuously given by the chief state architect. For some of these facilities, the Environmental Protection Agency also gave consent to the Environmental Impact Assessment Eleborat...
Several private tourist facilities have already been built in the vicinity of the state cable car K7, whose departure station is in the immediate vicinity of the ski resort owned by Bećirović's company. More than 1450 villas, four hotels and several other tourist facilities are planned to be built on the Kolašin 30 site.
It would be logical to assume that the state cable car K7, which connects the infrastructure of the private and state ski resort, was built with all consumption permits and in accordance with planning documents. "Vijesti" did not manage to find out from the state company that is the end user of K7, how it came to be that the legal construction of the state and private individuals violates the Law on Ski Resorts, when it comes to the distance of the buildings in relation to the cable car.
The state is silent, the private individual insults
The Ski Resorts of Montenegro company did not respond to "Vijesta" questions related to private construction under the state cable car.
Earlier, the company said that K7, which cost close to nine million euros, was "predicted by PPPN" and reminded that the ski resorts are "the ultimate user of the cable car, which they received for use from the Capital Projects Administration". It's management, they say. hired a contractor, auditor and supervision.
The company Ski resort Kolašin 1450 received an "answer" to several questions from "Vijesti", which has nothing to do with the topic. The director of that company Milica Šćepanović she made a series of insults against the "Vijesti" journalist, accusing her of "untruths, insinuations, tendentious writing". Šćepanović wrote, among other things, that questions were asked about the buildings being built in the immediate vicinity of the state cable car, a continuation of "media and public pressure on all those who do not pay for advertisements in 'Vijesti'".
"From your last questions we can see the intention to continue with negative reporting and we already know in advance that no answers from our side will prevent you and your principals, whether formal or informal, from writing new constructions to justify your inaccurate reporting ”, wrote, among other things, the director of Ski resort Kolašin 1450.
The Ministry of Tourism responded to questions regarding possible problems due to the construction of private tourist facilities in the immediate vicinity of the state cable car by reminding them of the irresponsibility of that department as prescribed by the Act on Ski Areas. "Vijesti", among other things, asked for a comment on whether the current situation at the Kolašin 1450 locality could be an obstacle to obtaining a permit for the operation of the state ski resort for the next season.
"The competence of the Ministry of Tourism to issue approval for the performance of ski resort activities is prescribed in Article 7 of the Law on Ski Resorts. Also, the aforementioned law prescribes the conditions that the ski resort must meet in order to issue an authorization for the provision of activities. Therefore, the Ministry, as the competent authority in the approval process, is obliged to implement the Law on Ski Resorts", stated the department headed by Simonida Korodić.
Connecting the ski slopes and undermining the steps
The K7 cable car was opened in February 2022. It is a six-seater, 1,5 kilometers long, with a capacity of 2.600 skiers per hour. It enables the connection of more than 40 kilometers of ski tracks of the state ski resort Kolašin 1600 and the private Kolašin 1450, in Bjelasica.
In July 2020, the government made a decision to determine the public interest in the expropriation of real estate for the construction of the K7 cable car, accompanying ski slopes and a garage at the Kolašin 1450 location. , bought dozens of plots. The expropriation of private land for those facilities cost, according to the available documentation, around 1450 euros. Close to 550.000 plots of land, within the cadastral municipality (KO) Smrčje, were purchased from private individuals for the location of pole positions, the access road and the cable laying route, as well as for the need to build a ski track next to the K40 cable car...
However, despite this, according to unofficial information from "Vijesti", part of the installations for K7 were installed by mistake on neighboring private plots, so the cables were broken several times during construction works on private tourist facilities. Apparently, that problem was solved by subsequent relocation of the installations...
In mid-June of this year, as they told "Vijesta" at the time, the urban planning and construction inspection prohibited the preparatory works for the construction of villas at the Kolašin 1450 location, because they threatened the pillar of the state cable car K7. The inspection carried out an inspection on June 10 and ordered the investor who builds villas to "provide the safety and stability of the pillar within twelve days".
"During the inspection, it was determined that during the preparatory work for the construction of the single-family accommodation unit, the ground collapsed in the immediate vicinity of the cable car pole K7, which resulted in the pole being undermined. The urban planning and construction inspector determined that the construction works on the buildings threaten the safety of the neighboring pole of the K7 cable car and ordered a measure to prohibit further construction works, and to ensure the safety and stability of the neighboring pole of the K7 cable car within twelve days, they told "Vijesta" at the time. in the Ministry.
They explained that on the ground, "it was recorded that the work on the rehabilitation of the undermined cable car 'K7' pole had started, during which a part of the concrete retaining wall was made under the pole, and piles were also installed".
As they claimed from the Ministry, after the application for the construction of villas on Bjelasica, which was processed in August last year, "no irregularities were found in the submitted documentation".
On the portal founded by the company Ski resort Kolašin 1450, they wrote that the investor "reacted urgently in order to avoid endangering the safety of the cable car pole, and after submitting a request and receiving the consent of the Ski resort of Montenegro, the company UCC Montecop was engaged."
As they claimed, that company should "immediately carry out piling and protection of the pillar, according to the previously prepared main project".
According to the portal owned by the investor, "during the preparatory work for villas 33 and 24, after unfavorable weather conditions, the land moved".
They also claimed that "during the execution of the works, it was determined that the cable car pole is not in the location provided for in the planning document and that it does not have adequately constructed foundations".
Allegedly, the pillars' foundations were made in significantly smaller dimensions than defined in the planning documentation.
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