The municipality of Klaipėda asks the Ministry of the Environment to pay attention to the constructions causing concern in the recreational areas on the seashore. Here you can see cases where modular buildings are built without any project documentation and construction permits. At that time, the controlling institution – the Territorial Planning and Construction Inspectorate – did not notice any violations, the municipality reports.
“The coastal area is particularly valuable from a recreational point of view. The city also seeks to obtain the status of a resort area, so we strive to prevent the construction of modular buildings from becoming an opportunity to avoid design and other necessary procedures and simply build valuable areas. The coastal belt automatically implies the requirements of higher architectural quality, and what we are seeing at the moment is a completely opposite process,” says Klaipėda Mayor Arvydas Vaitkus.
The Territorial Planning and Construction Inspectorate treats modular buildings as movable objects, which are not controlled by this inspectorate. The Minister of the Environment is requested to oblige the inspectorate to conduct a repeated investigation of the current situation and prepare legislation that would help prevent the spread of such constructions.
In the opinion of municipal specialists, the structures that the inspectorate classifies as movable objects were actually not manufactured in a factory and brought to the site, but built on site during construction work, using construction products, have supporting structures that are installed at the construction site, parts of engineering communications brought to the buildings of modular buildings arose outside the construction zone defined by the detailed plan.
“Such things can be repeated in other recreational or resort areas, so clear regulation is necessary now. We hope that the Ministry of the Environment will pay attention to our concerns and take steps to prevent the seaside from being built up with valueless modular structures,” says the Klaipėda mayor.
Widespread cases in protected areas have shown that such trends can spread quite rapidly. This phenomenon was managed by establishing appropriate regulation of activities in protected areas. Meanwhile, there are no legal levers to control such constructions in non-protected, but no less valuable recreational and resort areas.
