Regarding the off-plan construction, in an interview on SKAI radio, the minister of Environment & Energy, Mr. Thodoros Skylakakis, the aim of the ministry is for all construction to be within planning and for this reason a major urban reform is underway which is expected to be completed in three to four years.
In the interim and after the decision of the CoE, the bill will provide for a series of transitional arrangements that will mainly concern areas where the roads are not recognized, as where there are recognized roads there is no intervention.
The bill provides that in order for someone to maintain the ability to build on his plot, the following conditions must be met:
The plot should be on a road through which a fire truck cannot pass, (road width limit of three and a half meters).
It should be on a road, which is made by the state and not a private road.
And finally, it should face a street, where there is another house nearby.
The restrictive regulation that is being promoted is transitory as afterwards the right to build may be recognized in properties that in the meantime will lose it as "the new urban planning may come to tell us that this area must be developed. And this road should be recognized and then be built normally but become the basis of planning in an organized manner" commented the minister
