Vilnius authorities warn: developer illegally sells eight one-bedroom houses Business

The press release indicates that the Chief Architect of the City received an application to issue a building permit for the project “Eight apartment blocks of flats. Kruopiškių st. 5, Vilnius. Construction project”. According to the author of the project, the architect Rimvydas Muduras, these are eight individual residential houses, each of which does not exceed 300 square meters. m, so they supposedly don’t need approval of the design task or procedure to advertise project proposals. But from the municipality’s point of view, this is an abrupt attempt to take advantage of the simplifications in the procedures that the decision of the Ministry of the Environment in the Technical Construction Regulations effectively granted to one and two-bedroom homes.

“The municipality considers this and other similar projects as a block of flats, the total surface of which significantly exceeds 600 m2. It requires both the coordination of the design task and the procedures to publicize the project proposals, – the head of Mindaugas Pakalnis city architects in the press release – In addition, municipal specialists, after evaluating the principles of surrounding construction, stated that one-bedroom, two-apartment residential houses predominate in this quarter and around Bajorai Therefore, a significantly denser construction violates the architectural quality criteria established in the Architecture Law of the Republic of Lithuania, which require harmony with the environment and contextuality. For these two reasons, the municipality refused to issue a building permit for the project. Also, we expect the Ministry of the Environment Pay attention to this problem derived from the gaps in the Technical Construction Regulations: we still lack the legal power to control the construction of apartment buildings in single-family residential areas. “

According to the municipality, despite the negative response from the Vilnius city municipality, the builders are selling the residential houses provided for in this project. Residents were informed about this by residents of neighboring parcels.

At the same time, another similarly constructed project was inspected through Infostatybas: “Houses in a block of six houses. Tarandė (0101/0171: 272), Vilnius. Construction project “. Its designer is R.Muduras himself, using the same method to avoid the publicity procedures of project proposals and without taking into account the requirement of consistency with the environment and context applied to the projects. AND For this project, the municipality refused to issue a construction permit for the reasons already mentioned.

“The municipality reiterates that to protect the interests of the public and the consumer, it will no longer issue a construction permit for such projects and will no longer tolerate attempts to avoid the necessary advertising procedures and carefully assess the projects’ compliance with the urban context. For misleading advertising, an attempt to sell real estate objects for which the municipality has refused to issue construction permits, we will apply to the Consumer Rights Protection Service; issuing a construction permit is considered essential to create advertised objects and the Consumers’ choice to buy such objects Buying real estate “from drawings” is no longer just here This is a purchase of an object without documents and an attempt by designers to pass the elephant through the needle hole “Said M. Pakalnis.