No building violations for failure to respect the height, gaps, volume, covered surfaces, with specifications increasing up to 5% of the measures envisaged in the housing title depending on the square footage for works carried out by 24 May 2024. Changes easier intended use. A new type of free building intervention that includes outdoor awnings. An ‘amnesty’ on the dehors created during the Covid emergency for “health, welfare and educational” purposes and kept in operation.
The draft of the Casa Decree, created by the deputy prime minister and minister of Infrastructure Matteo Salvini, expected in the Council of Ministers this morning, includes various areas of intervention on the front of building discrepancies. The text, postponed several times to refine some aspects, in its revised version finds the approval of the government allies. Albeit with some distinctions. “Forza Italia has already presented two projects to the Senate to allow small amnesties. In the Council of Ministers we will see if the rules will go in the direction we proposed. We are against unlimited amnesties, but it is right to be masters of one’s own home”, specifies the FI leader and Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani. “It’s one thing to have a window,” he adds, “it’s another to be an eco-monster on the seashore.”
“The decree law contains provisions of an urgent and timely nature aimed at providing immediate and concrete feedback to the growing housing need, while supporting, at the same time, the objectives of recovering the existing building stock and reducing land consumption”, specifies the explanatory report of the ‘save-home’ decree. It is a question, the document continues, of “removing those obstacles – recurring in practice – which cause sales to stall due to formal irregularities”.
Surprisingly, a passage enters the text which provides that removable structures created during the Covid emergency for “health, welfare and educational” purposes and kept in operation on the date of entry into force of this provision “may remain installed in derogation of the time constraint” in the presence of “proven and objective needs capable of demonstrating their continuing necessity”.
The report explains that “changing the intended use of the individual real estate unit without works is always permitted”, in compliance with sector regulations and without prejudice to the possibility for municipal planning instruments to establish specific conditions within the “same functional category” and “among the functional categories relating to the category: residential; tourist-accommodation; manufacturing and management and commercial”.
On the sanctioning side, the Municipalities will be able to arrange for the alienation of the property and the surrounding area, making the contract conditional on the actual removal of the illegal works by the buyer. “The participation of the person responsible for the abuse is precluded”, specifies the text, in the disposal procedure. The value of the property “is determined by the territory agency taking into account the costs for the removal of illegal works”.
For the leader of the League Salvini: “It is not an amnesty, it is a simplification, an amnesty, of all the small irregularities that exist within the homes of millions of Italians. One cannot remain hostage to the bureaucracy for twenty years for a 20cm window, for two steps on a ladder”. The opposition has an opposite opinion, having labeled the provision in recent days as a disguised “amnesty”.