Oversized construction in Kostanjica has already destroyed the view of the islands of Gospa od Škrpjela and St. George from Perast. This happened despite the fact that the former Regional Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments from Kotor gave a negative view to the planning documentation, which enabled construction on the previously untouched slopes of the hill between Kostanjica and Turkish Cape at the entrance to Verige.
This was confirmed to "Vijesta" by an interlocutor from the former Regional Institute, knowledgeable about the issues and work of the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Property (UZK), into which the Kotor Institute was "drowned" a few years ago.
In 2009, the regional institute was managed by Ružica Ivanović (SDP), who at that time was mostly opposed to megalomaniacal plans for the construction of new facilities along the coasts of the Bay of Kotorska-Risan, which is under the protection of UNESCO.
UZK is now managed by Anastazija Miranović (DPS) and today she is one of the links in the chain that should implement the Action Plan of the Ministry of Culture to prevent the removal of the area of Kotor from the list of world natural and cultural heritage under the patronage of UNESCO.
That organization has been warning the Montenegrin state for years that such a status of Kotor is threatened by oversized and environment inappropriate construction.
The Regional Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments gave a negative opinion on the proposed amendments to the DUP Kostanjica in 2009. However, that opinion was given after the legal deadline of 15 days, so the Municipality of Kotor led by Marija Ćatović (DPS) adopted the DUP Kostanjica. They stated that the Regional Institute did not declare about it within the deadline, which is considered as giving tacit consent.
After the adoption of that DUP, intensive construction of apartments for the market began on the previously untouched part of the area in Kostanjic. The largest such complex was built by the company "Inprus Monte", and consists of as many as 28 buildings - villas with apartments and so-called. family villas, with a total area of 9.820 square meters. Building permits for that complex were issued by the Secretariat for Urbanism, Construction and Spatial Planning of the Municipality of Kotor, which was managed by DPS in that interval, from 2010 until September of last year.
In none of those permits, which "Vijesti" had access to, in the list of documents on the basis of which they were issued, there is no attached formal consent of the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Property for the construction of new buildings.
In the meantime, the investor "Boka Projekt" from Nikšić in Kostanjic built ten more larger residential buildings with a total area of over 4.000 square meters.
Even in the construction permits for those buildings, it was not stated that the consent of the Administration for the Protection of Cultural Properties was attached. The same is the case with the latest construction permits issued by the Municipality of Kotor in mid-February to the company "AY Montenegro" doo from Kotor, which will build as many as thirty new residential buildings in Kostanjica with a total area of almost 8.700 square meters.
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