The package of changes to the building law proposed by the Ministry of Investment and Development has just been adopted by the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers.
Changes will facilitate and accelerate the preparation of new investments. They will promote the connection of new investments to electricity, gas, heating, water and sewage networks. There will be specific deadlines for undertakings extending the connection, the excess of which will result in penalties. There will also be a new procedure for legalising old building self-services, which will increase the safety of such facilities.
The amendment will include further exemptions from the obligation to obtain construction permits, including for gas installations carried out inside and outside the utility building, or home terraces.
We need "Clean Air"
The government's Clean Air programme must be based on effective solutions promoting the connection of all new investments to the heating network wherever possible today. Therefore, changes in the Energy Law to enforce the obligation to connect buildings. The designer will check whether residential buildings can be connected to an existing heating network.
If the operator of technical networks delays the release of the conditions for joining these networks, he will pay the penalty for each day of delay. The Act will prohibit water and sewage companies from charging for the issue of technical conditions for connection to the network.
It will be safer - old volitions for simplified legalization
An important change improving the safety of buildings concerns old buildings - at least 20-summer - self-building. It will be easier to legalise them, allowing them to be incorporated into the screening system. The condition for using a simplified, free procedure will be to provide technical expertise, confirming the safe use of the facility and geodesic post-executive inventory.
Deregulation and the Freedom Package
The builders will submit less documents at the stage of applying for construction permits. Instead of a wheelbarrow with projects, an investor will need a few files. The proposal will be accompanied by only part of the current construction project. The number of required copies of the project attached to the application from 4 to 3.
After the changes, the construction project will consist of a plot or site development project (location, communication system, information about the area of the object's impact), an architectural-building project (space layout, technical and material design) and a technical project (description of the structure, installation, energy characteristics). The technical project will need to be submitted to the office together with the application for authorisation to use or declaration of completion of works.
We eliminate absurdities: ticketing, depositing, vending machines, parcels, vending machines or machines for other services of a height up to 3 m will be explicitly exempt from the obligation of a construction permit and notification. In such a dynamically developing market, various types of vending machines do not need a decision to permit construction and a construction log for any such vending machine – this would be absurd. So this will simply be regulated directly in the bill.
The amendment will provide further exemptions from the obligation to obtain a construction permit, including for gas installations performed inside and outside the building or for home terraces. For example, water melioration devices will be exempted from notification.
The draft law provides for the introduction of a limit period of five years for the annulment of the decision on the construction permit and the decision on the use permit. So far it has been that the nullity of the decision to permit construction could be stated many years after the building had been built and used. This led to legal uncertainty. New solutions will make you 5 the years following the notification or notification of the decision will no longer be called into question.
Fire safety after security checks in rooms and for the future
Security issues of use will also be strengthened in terms of changing the use of the building that affects fire safety, for example when changing the apartment to kindergarten or basement in the block to escape room. In such a situation, it will be necessary to draw up a fire expert.