Institutional portal - Municipality of Milan

Milan, February 11 2021 - From day one I have been saying that the Regional Law on abandoned properties is wrong in its objectives and unconstitutional in form and the orders with which the TAR sends the papers to the Constitutional Court strengthen our beliefs. I am sorry that to get these concepts through we had to wait for a judicial order and that politicians did not act autonomously to remedy this undue interference on municipal regulations by the Lombardy Region, which also undermines fair treatment between owners paradoxically favoring the risks of abandonment of properties. Recovery certainly doesn't involve giving bonuses to those who drop out, it certainly doesn't involve leaving them with the possibility of doing nothing for another 5 years."

Thus the Urban Planning Councilor Pierfrancesco Maran comments on the ruling of the Regional Administrative Court for Lombardy in favor of the Municipality of Milan in the context of the appeals of three property owners relating to the rule on the recovery of abandoned buildings of the Territorial Government Plan.

“Yesterday I asked for the activation of a working group to amend the Regional Law which today is even more urgent and which must respect the objectives that the Municipality had set itself by approving in the PGT a strong and innovative regulation against abandonment, put into discussion precisely by this law which we believe will be declared unconstitutional.
At that table we will work with seriousness and rigor to significantly modify that law, with the aim of also providing certainty to owners and investors. In fact, they are the ones most damaged by a law which, having such weak foundations, shows that those who thought it was a way to circumvent Milan's PGT were wrong.
The TAR reiterates that the autonomy of the Municipality cannot be compromised, as it is responsible for general planning choices by virtue of the principle of subsidiarity enshrined in Article 118 of the Constitution, as established several times and reiterated by the Constitutional Court in previous decisions, and as I have repeatedly mentioned - somewhat unheeded - in recent weeks. Now we start again from the PGT and we will find a way to prevent this artfully fueled illusory bubble from damaging investments and regeneration and reuse initiatives, which we are certainly happy to welcome".