As Glas Istre/Chiara Bilic writes on the 22nd of October, 2019, although the preliminary solution for the future investment is not yet complete, Ivica Salvador from Stanoinvest points out that nothing will go beyond the plans of the City of Pula. For now, all of the features that will be the fruit of this investment remain unknown, but according to financiers, other than apartments, the area will receive shops and a nursery.
At the beginning of 2021, part of the area above the Port of Delfin in Pula will take on the outline of the residential area. Ivica Salvador, the owner of Stanoinvest, will take care of changing the view of this attractive land near the sea, in a project that will cover approximately 18,000 square metres.
The land in question involves cadastral building plots, which until recently were owned by Israeli investors from the SBE company from Rijeka. At this location, namely on eleven percent of the land of this green area, they also planned to build an apartment complex. However, after the City of Pula accepted their request to amend the urban development plan ten years ago, residents of the surrounding areas and Green Istria associations have repeatedly objected to the announced construction, believing that the Pula did not protect the interests of its citizens but instead favoured the wishes of a private investor.
They were particularly concerned about the permissible percentage of the maximum construction of the zone, the number of floors (four) and the height of the buildings, which would be arranged in a row extending down to the shore, exactly thirty metres from the sea, which would obscure the view towards the Veruda channel. As a result, numerous debates were organised and a petition against the settlement was once signed by a thousand citizens.
At that time, it was questionable whether Pula needed an apartment complex at all and why exactly it would be constructed at this location, to which the city authorities mainly referred to the previously amended general urban plan (GUP). It was announced that SBE would complete the construction in 2014, but the project never got past the first point.
As stated, although the conceptual solution for the future investment is not yet complete, Ivica Salvador pointed out that nothing will go beyond the plans of the City of Pula, and while the fruit of this investment isn’t known in full, what it will bring, at least according to Salvador, will provide a high quality of life for local citizens.
”The location is attractive, it has access from several directions from the land, but also from the sea,” said Salvador, who refers to this investment a major undertaking for Stanoinvest.
Otherwise, on this green corridor above the Port of Delfin, the City of Pula does own some of the plots of land. Although housing construction is also allowed on them, Giordano Škuflić, the head of the Administrative Department for Physical Planning, Utility and Property, confirmed several months ago that the city plots will not be sold at this moment in time.
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