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The Ministry of Construction issued a building permit for Knez Miloš 42, although it is not authorized, according to the tenants of neighboring buildings. The six-story building under construction is right next to the neighboring building and could collapse it. The tenants therefore started an administrative dispute against the Ministry, and blocked the construction site
In Belgrade Kneza Miloša Street on the corner with Vojvode Milenko Street, tenants and activists have been blocking the construction site of the six-story building since May Day. They claim that the same thing will happen to them, which happened to the residents of Block 4 in Novobeograd, who were left without electricity due to the construction of an improperly high building, and four years ago to the residents in Vidovdanska, whose building collapsed due to the digging of the foundations of the new one next door.
They warned about this in time. Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure (MGSI), but the investor still received a building permit. The investor is Sašo Tasevski, behind whom, according to the tenants, one of the heads of SNS seems to be hiding because he was seen watching the construction site from the corner.
Tenant arguments
The Ministry recognized the tenants of Knez Miloš and Vojvoda Milenko as parties to the proceedings when issuing the construction permit, they submitted their arguments, but in the end the Ministry still ignored all that and issued the construction permit to Tasevski.
Among the tenants' arguments were the following two: by law, the building must be between 7 and 13 meters away from the neighboring one, and the new six-story building is only 1.4 meters away from Knez Miloš 44. In addition, the tenants are also threatened by the construction of an underground garage in three levels because there is a high level of groundwater here, which of course can undermine the foundations and collapse the building.
The disputed construction permit was signed by the Minister of Public Investments, Darko Glišić.
Sanja Solarević, member of the Green-Left Front in the Savski venac Municipal Assembly, tells "Vreme" that the Ministry of Construction is not competent to issue this building permit, but the City of Belgrade.
The Ministry is not competent.
"It is not known why the Ministry took over that responsibility from the City. The Ministry of Construction issues building permits for infrastructure facilities and facilities with an area of over 20.000 square meters, and here we are talking about the construction of a residential and business facility of 3.136 square meters," says Sanja Solarević.
She has not yet received an answer to the councilor's question as to why this happened, as well as why the tenants' arguments were ignored at the meeting on March 20.
Of all the institutions to which tenants complained, only the Building Inspection responded. She ordered the demolition by mechanization to be stopped, but did not close the construction site - the inspector said she was not responsible for that.
"Practically, she didn't do anything, because everything has already been demolished, so mechanization is no longer needed at the construction site," says Sanja Solarević.
All of this would not have happened if the Ministry of Construction had not issued a building permit. That is why the tenants of Knez Miloš started an administrative dispute against the Ministry of Construction.
Until then, they defend their apartments by blocking the construction site.
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