{"id":210,"date":"2013-08-24T02:33:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T23:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/?p=210"},"modified":"2013-08-24T02:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T23:33:48","slug":"albania-election-victors-take-on-illegal-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/albania-election-victors-take-on-illegal-builds\/","title":{"rendered":"Albania Election Victors Take on Illegal Builds"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Socialist Party, the victor of the June 23 elections, has launched a new website on which citizens are urged to report illegal constructions – a seriously blight across the country.<\/p>\n

The new website called, “Stop Destruction”, calls on citizens to use smart phones and the web to report new illegal builds.<\/p>\n

\u201cUse your cell phone as an irreplaceable weapon against destruction,\u201d Albania\u2019s Prime Minister-elect, Edi Rama, said on Twitter. \u201cIllegal builds can only be stopped together,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The new Socialist-led government wants to crack down on illicit building, while speeding up the legalisation process, although excluding constructions on the coast or in national parks.<\/p>\n

Over the past two decades, hundreds of thousands of buildings have been erected in Albania without construction permits.<\/p>\n

In 2006, Albania adopted a law aimed at legalising the estimated 220,000 unauthorised buildings across the country.<\/p>\n

However, the legalisation process has run into the sand, because since the law entered into force, thousands of new buildings without planning permission have been built.<\/p>\n

According to a World Bank report published in 2012, since the law was passed in 2006, some 80,000 new illegal dwellings have gone up; the number could be as high as 120,000. <\/p>\n

In the last few months, the municipality of Tirana has faced accusations of turning a blind eye to illegal constructions.<\/p>\n

However, the city mayor, Lulzim Basha, has called criticism of the municipality politically motivated. The mayor is chairman of the centre-right Democratic Party, which lost power nationally in the recent general election. balkaninsight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Socialist Party, the victor of the June 23 elections, has launched a new website on which citizens are urged to report illegal constructions – a seriously blight across the country. The new website called, “Stop Destruction”, calls on citizens to use smart phones and the web to report new illegal builds. \u201cUse your cell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prizrenpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}