The City Planning Department of the Lviv City Council discovered the arbitrary seizure of almost 50 hectares of land. The plots include land for the construction of the northern bypass near Dublyan, plots for the local cemetery and the sanitary and protective zone of the working cattle cemetery. The estimated amount of damages is UAH 1.7 million.
Self-seized land was discovered during monitoring of communally owned land. There are 47.8 hectares of mainly agricultural land and 22 plots of communal property, but not only that.
“The Department of State Control over the Use and Protection of Land compared the open data of the land cadastre, urban planning documentation and cartographic materials of the territory of the Dublin City Council. And it became obvious – unknown persons seized three massifs of communally owned land near the Dvirskyi Lis tract between the villages of Sitikhiv and Mali Pidlisky. With the creation of the Lviv MTG, together with the Dublyans, they entered the Lviv urban territorial community,” said the city planning department of the LMR.
During the commission survey, consisting of representatives of the state control department, the land resources department and the Office of the Lviv community in Dublyany, it was found that hectares of seized land had been plowed. Soy and potatoes are already growing here.
“Unknown farmers were not deterred by the fact that this is communal land, to which they have no rights, nor even by the fact that 10 plots are in the sanitary and protective zone of the cattle cemetery, which is currently working. That’s why you can’t plant anything here.
They also seized a 2.5-hectare plot of land, which, according to the general plan of the village of Mali Podlisky, was earmarked for a cemetery. And also – a plot of state-owned land with an approximate area of 6 hectares, which is intended for the construction of a new concession road Lviv – Krakovets (northern bypass of Lviv),” says the Department of Urban Planning of the LMR.
The Department of State Control over the Use and Protection of Land has prepared an appeal to the police, prosecutor’s office, and the State Geocadastre; in parallel, legal measures will be initiated. The approximate amount of damage caused to the state and the territorial community due to such actions is at least UAH 1.7 million.