PM welcomes new town planning bill that preserves existing boundaries in small settlements under 2,000 people

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday welcomed new legislation reforming town planning rules, prepared by the environment and energy ministry, during a meeting with Environment and Energy Minister Stavros Papastavrou and Deputy Environment and Energy Minister Nikos Tagaras. He noted that the new regulations, which will be tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, will preserve existing boundaries and protect property rights for nine in 10 small settlements in Greece, providing 'town planning security for settlements with less than 2,000 inhabitants".
The bill will preserving the existing boundaries established decades ago for all settlements with less than 700 inhabitants, so in effect nothing changes, calling it a "silent reform" that dispelled uncertainty and a great deal of misinformation concerning the impact of a recently published presidential decree.
"To put it simply, as the minister said, for all settlements of under 700 inhabitants - practically speaking the overwhelming majority of settlements in the country, the existing boundaries are effectively preserved as these were laid out some decades ago, therefore absolutely nothing changes, he said.

 

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