Decision about building land in Belgrade adopted – more efficient application of Law on planning and construction

Oliver Glišić

The Board members of the City Assembly of Belgrade adopted the new Decision about building land yesterday (February 12, 2009). The existing decision has been treating only the building land on the territory of ten city boroughs. However, according to the new Statute of the city of Belgrade, the Directorate for Building Land and Development of Belgrade is also responsible for building land in boroughs of Lazarevac, Grocka, Mladenovac, Sopot, Surčin, Barajevo and Obrenovac.

- Having analyzed the existing decisions, we came to the conclusion that there were great differences in both calculation and payment of rent and payment of fee for organization of building land. Therefore, we needed to bring the criteria in accord by unique decision. However, we found it better to have two separate documents to regulate the issues of rent and fee for organization of building land, so that we now have the decision about organization of rental area and the decision about fee for use of building land – said Oliver Glišić, a member of the City Council.

The decision stipulates that the building land must be offered for rent on public tender in case when the gross surface of the facility under construction does not exceed 10,000 square meters.