New platform to file illegal properties located in the woods
New platform to file illegal properties located in the woods

New platform to file illegal properties located in the woods

What property owners have to do in order to declare ownership of their assets that are located in a forest and lack a building permit.
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Dimitris I. Papadomarkakis
27.07.2021

Through a new ministerial decision are the terms and operational specifications of an internet platform being defined. Through the new platform interested parties will be able to file applications to adjust apparent flaws in forest maps, objections, annulment applications or any other administrative or legal remedy by which they dispute that their property is of a forest nature. The decision was jointly signed by the Undersecretary of Environment and Energy ministry, George Amyras and the Undersecretary of the ministry of Digital Governance George Stylios and has been published in the Government Gazette.

Interested parties may file an application online via a platform operated by the "Hellenic Land Registry" as soon as they have finalized a fee payment in the General Secretariat of Information Systems' website.

The security departments of local forestry offices shall be the authorities responsible to collect and check the applications filled. 

Through the platform it would be possible to have:

 a) access on posted forest maps on the Hellenic Land Registry's cartographic backgrounds with available navigation tools,

b) submission of a request for inclusion in article 55 of law 4685/2020, by filling in a special electronic form 

c) geospatial location of the plot and surface' demarcation and computation of its geospatial location and delimitation of the dwelling to which the application relates and of any ancillary structures accompanying it

e) registration of housing and other structures: coverage, built-up area and height

f) saving in a "pdf" format file and printing of the submitted application as well as the proof of submission