Illegal buildings to be demolished, compliance after the fact no longer allowed

The Government decided via an emergency ordinance to eliminate the possibility of owners, builders and developers who infringed on urban plans to get the so called “urban plans to ensure compliance after the fact” for buildings that do not comply with the plans. The government drastically limited the possibility of the public authorities admitting the Zonal Town Planning (PUZ) financed by private investors or by landowners, which currently allow the PUZ to stray from the General Urban Planning (PUG) for areas of 1,000 square metres.
The emergency ordinance which modifies law 530/2001 on setting up the territory and urbanism sets out clearly that the state can impose limitations on use of the property.
“The state, via the public authorities, has the right and the duty to impose limitations on the use of property in order to ensure the conditions for sustainable development and for complying with the general interest, under the law.”
Development minister Elena Udrea said on Wednesday evening, after the government meeting, that the new form of the law no longer left the developer or the investor the possibility of securing approval for a new zonal town planning or documents to make the building comply with the law after the fact.