The urban planning and construction inspection was informed that the retaining wall that secures the pillar of the state cable car K7 has been damaged again, the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property told "Vijesta".
From the department Slaven Radunović, however, did not answer whether the construction of private villas under the state cable car is in violation of the Law on Ski Resorts, but announced that they would "check the documentation".
"The Ministry will recheck the documentation submitted with the construction applications of the mentioned facilities and, if deficiencies are identified, take the necessary measures, in accordance with the competences", they stated.
"Vijesti" announced seven days ago that the foundations of 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 is located.
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.
Referring to unofficial information, "Vijesti" announced that it is about foundations for single-family accommodation units (chalet), and that the investor is the Ski resort company "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)"...
The Ski Resorts of Montenegro company did not respond to "Vijesta" questions related to private construction under the state cable car.
From the company Ski resort "Kolašin 1450" to several questions from "Vijesti", an "answer" that has nothing to do with the topic arrived. The director of that company Milica Šćepanović she made a series of insults against the "Vijesti" journalist, accusing her of "untruths, insinuations, tendentious writing"...
The Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property did not specify at which pillar the retaining wall was damaged this time and whether it was caused by the construction of private buildings.
They reminded that in June, during the preparatory work for the construction of private single-family villas, the ground collapsed in the immediate vicinity of the cable car pole K7, as a result of which the cable car pole was undermined, which "Vijesti" wrote about at the time.
Then, they explain, a decision was made to prohibit work and measures were ordered to be taken to secure and ensure the safety and stability of the cable car pole K7.
After the investor acted accordingly, the construction ban was suspended. The investor announced on his portal 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 it does not have adequately constructed foundations"...
According to what is evident on the ground, several foundations for future villas are less than 12 meters away from K7. The law on ski resorts, according to which such a situation is not allowed, was adopted in 2007.
The position of the villas was defined by the Special Purpose Spatial Plan (PPPN) of "Bjelasica" and "Komovi" a few years later, and in 2013 the state also issued urban planning and technical conditions (UTU). In the submitted documentation for the villas, as previously established by the urban planning and construction inspection, no irregularities were found.
And the cable car, opened in 2022, was installed in accordance with the PPPN and has all the necessary permits, the state companies of the Ski Resorts of Montenegro have repeatedly announced.
The Capital Projects Administration, which is the investor of the cable car, did not answer the questions of "Vijesti" in the past few days. Among other things, the questions related to the possibility that the construction in the immediate vicinity could endanger that part of the ski infrastructure and make it unsafe for use.
After the text about the construction in the area of the K7 cable car was published in "Vijesti", on the portal founded by the Ski resort "Kolašin 1450", they published:
"... the Government and the Parliament of Montenegro, in addition to this law (the Law on Ski Areas), passed the PPPN for Bjelasica and Komov and defined in it, among other things, the chalets in their current positions, and apart from them, the road infrastructure and electrical infrastructure, which according to this logic also do not should be built".
They also stated that the Government issued the UTA on July 23, 2013, and that "a conceptual solution was then prepared, which was approved by the chief state architect, so the main design of the chalet was created."
"As part of the audit, he received the consent of all institutions in order to register the construction of buildings. It is important to note that an expropriation procedure was carried out for the needs of the Ski Resort of Montenegro, which was accepted without appeal, which did not include the protection corridor from the Law on Ski Resorts, which is 17 years old, and no act of the state considered this as problematic".
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 on determining 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" site. For construction purposes, the state bought dozens of plots from several private companies, including the Ski Resort "Kolašin 1450". The expropriation of private land for those facilities cost, according to the available documentation, around 550.000 euros.
Close to 40 plots of land were purchased from private individuals for the location of the footings, the access road and the cable laying route, as well as for the need to build a ski slope next to the K7 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. Allegedly, that problem was solved by subsequent relocation of the installations.
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.
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