Consistent with our commitment to keep you updated on the most important developments, we outline below the key points of new Law 4759/2020 (Official Government Gazette A’ 245/09-12-2020) Modernization of Spatial and Urban Planning Legislation.
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- Spatial and urban planning system efficiency is simplified, accelerated and improved, in order to resolve some ambiguities and conflicts
- Provisions for maritime spatial planning, including its disengagement from land spatial planning and mainly from spatial planning concerning land coastal areas
- Provisions related to the development outside urban planning zones and within organized receptors for productive activities
- Simplification and improvement of land uses system
- Control and protection of constructed environment
- Electronic urban identity- Building coefficient transfer
- Provisions for arbitrary constructions and changes of land uses, resolving special problems arising from the interpretation of related provisions
- The law introduces provisions for the urban expropriation
- The law provides for certified evaluators for spatial reports. These evaluators shall be responsible for the evaluation of the reports, on the basis of which spatial and urban plans will be prepared
- The New Building Regulation is simplified and rationalized.
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