POMIDA raised three pending issues of the market and society in today’s letter to the political leadership of the Ministry of Environment and Energy and requested their immediate legislative solution:

These are the following:

-The possibility of legal off-plan building,

-The possibility of arranging arbitrary category 5 and

-The ability to correct details of contracts and property horizon recommendations.

Regarding the possibility of legal off-plan building, POMIDA mentions, among other things, in its announcement that in terms of urban planning, off-plan building is not arbitrary building, but building with rules, while its abolition risks signaling the beginning of a new generation of arbitrary in the country. Economically, plots of land are purchased for investment or exploitation (by Greeks and foreigners) and are considered by their owners (islanders, farmers and citizens in general) as their important assets with an integrated and taxed value which is devalued and completely depleted by the abolition of the already of their acquired excellence and buildability, or from the typical alleged lack of “face in common space”, while for decades they have face on a public paved road, with all public utility networks.

Socially, according to POMIDA, the depreciation of off-plan properties will fatally force their current owners to sell them instead of a “lens board” to large investor companies, who will combine them legally, implementing behemoths of organized construction everywhere. Today, especially the flood victims of Thessaly who are in need of relocation, discover that they cannot even build a hut on their off-plan properties.

Environmentally, POMIDA also reports, legal off-plan construction does not destroy, but in fact protects the environment due to the fact that it keeps ownership interest alive, since the terms of off-plan construction are particularly low, especially on the small islands of the Aegean. Building megacities with premium building conditions is the one that will damage the environment much more.

In conclusion, POMIDA states that the complete ban on building on off-plan properties, which is being promoted today, constitutes nothing less than the substantial “confiscation” of off-plan small parcels of land, that is, the property of the Greek people, without any compensation at all, allegedly in the name of the environment .

POMIDA requests by legislation that there be an immediate transitional solution, until the completion of the urban planning of the areas outside the plan, with the designation as “public use” of the road network that existed in 1977 based on aerial photographs and with a connection of the “age” of each plot with the right to build outside the plan, to allow legal building on the plots without a “person” that were “created” before the year 2003 and therefore had full buildability.