As Services Deal with Coronavirus, Illegal Buildings Spring up in Istria

Coronavirus and everything to do with it has taken precedent, and rightfully so, above almost everything else. But while the backs of communal services and administrative bodies are turned, just what is going on? In Istria, illegal builders have taken advantage of the lack of attention being paid to them, and have begun work…

As Poslovni Dnevnik writes on the 28th of April, 2020, for the past month and a half, the ban on working for caterers and those in the hospitality industry, as well as everyone who works offering services has been firmly in place, with eye-watering fines and even prison sentences on the cards for those who broke the rules, but the same wasn’t done for construction work.

Work continued in Rovinj, Istria, without any fuss. This happened because of previously agreed investments and given deadlines, because it was easy to take advantage of the abundance of free time induced by the coronavirus pandemic, and to try to solving some of the accumulated backlog. However, according to local Istrian portal Glas Istre, it was done without the proper papers and without permits and licenses.

Investors behind this alleged shady behaviour likely believed that because attention was being drawn almost entirely to the coronavirus crisis, the attention of communal security guards would not be directed at illegal builders and their comings and goings.

”Over the past two months, we’ve recorded about thirty new facilities that have even come as far as to have roofs placed on them. We have visited a significant amount of them thanks to citizens’ reports, and when we’ve been inspecting ourselves. I simply don’t have any words for such behaviour because I’m not talking about just one or two isolated examples here and there, but about real new and fully illegal settlements,” Rovinj’s municipal utility manager Elvis Prenc told Glas Istre.

When asked where such “settlements” are located, he mentioned that they have been constructed in the southern part of the City of Rovinj.

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