In today's article of the newspaper "FILEYTHEROS" regarding the Local Plan for Akamas, under the headline "They left the hot potato to the successors" it is reported that the Minister of Interior did not allow the Director of Urban Planning to submit "a concrete proposal of compensatory measures easy and feasible".
The Director of Planning categorically denies this report. Neither easy nor much more ready-made compensatory measures were available, and this despite the fact that the Planning Board made enormous efforts to develop a series of compensatory measures. The difficulty in preparing them arose from the overly stringent regulations imposed by the Environmental Authority which substantially affect land values in the area, eliminating the possibility of drafting compensatory measures making it in many of the cases legally impracticable.
The reference to a deliberate delay on the part of the Planning Authority in the formulation of the final plan is far from the reality, since it is the Planning Authority that adopted in their entirety the recommendations of the interim environmental opinion from 2021, of which both the community leaders and the organised groups in the area had been informed. However, the Environmental Authority itself revoked what was agreed in its final opinion causing the delay recorded and forcing the Cabinet to make its final decision at its last meeting.
(EFYs)
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