The Committee for Planning and Spatial Development and Communal and Housing Activities of the Municipality of Kolašin will file a criminal complaint against an unidentified person for the construction of a staircase on a building being built in the center of Kolašin by "Bjelasica Invest".
This was said by the President of the Municipal Assembly. Vasilije Bulatović.
Responding to questions from "Vijesti", he said that two sessions of the Assembly Committee were held in December, and among the topics was the construction of a facility on Mirka Vešovića Street.
Bulatović and the Mayor Petko Bakić At the end of November last year, they requested the Ministry of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property to urgently intervene with the construction inspection and ban construction on cadastral plot 317/3 in the center of Kolašin. On that plot, construction of a hotel using the condo business model was advanced, the investor of which was “Bjelasica Invest”.
"The committee will file a criminal complaint in the coming days, in order to determine during the procedure whether all activities around the facility were carried out in accordance with regulations. Also, in order to eliminate the damage that the staircase, which is part of the facility, will cause," said the president of the Municipal Assembly.
According to Bulatović, a criminal complaint was planned at the Board meeting on December 5, but the filing was postponed, as the report from the urban planning and construction inspection was awaited. At the next meeting, about twenty days later, the Board agreed to file a criminal complaint. Bulatović claims that the Municipality of Kolašin has not yet received the requested inspection report.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Spatial Planning, Urbanism and State Property Slaven Radunović, appearing on TV Prva, as Bulatović recalls, said that "the inspection did not find anything illegal" regarding the construction of the condo hotel.
Despite the fact that, as the minister claims, the inspection found nothing illegal in the construction of the Kolašin condo hotel, from the organization KANA/Who if not an architect, according to the findings that KANA conducted at the end of 2023 together with the Green Kolašin initiative, the condo hotel project of the company "Bjelasica Invest" "significantly deviates from the Detailed Urban Plan (DUP)".
Inconsistencies in this regard, as they noted, relate "potentially to infrastructure connections, and certainly to the number of floors and purpose of the building, which jeopardizes legal certainty and the concept of spatial planning in that area."
"The planning document allows for a total of six floors, and the project envisages eight floors (two basements, a basement, a raised ground floor, three floors and an attic), which is two floors more than the maximum allowed. In addition, the so-called basement is the investor's standard above-ground floor, and the so-called ground floor is actually the first floor. Thus, the total number of above-ground floors becomes six (compared to the five allowed by the plan), and the total number of underground floors becomes two (compared to the one allowed by the plan)," KANA and Zeleni Kolašin write in their analysis.
As they stated, according to the conceptual design, on the ground floor of the building, the canopy above the entrance extended into the sidewalk area, thus exceeding the specified construction line. However, they claim that in the construction, “the entire building ‘stepped’ into the sidewalk area, de facto occupying the public space on this street and grossly exceeding the construction line specified in the plan.”
"The plan envisages buildings in a row on that plot. However, one of the roof planes of the designed building, which covers half of the building, drains stormwater to the neighboring plot (UP11), which is prohibited and contrary to the planning document...According to the urban and technical conditions (UTU), the purpose of the plot is exclusively business, and the planned number of residential units is zero. The project envisages a building intended for housing, with business space only on the ground floor, while the floors above are exclusively one-room apartments (24 residential units). This represents a gross violation of the planning document, because the purpose and structure of the building deviate from the prescribed conditions," they concluded in the analysis.
The plot on which the building is being built, according to the Real Estate Administration, has an area of 542 square meters and is owned by the investor. The plot also includes part of the sidewalk, which currently does not exist. The road where the building is being built is one-way, so part of the roadway is used as a parking lot, and it also houses the first charging station for electric cars in Kolašin.
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