The city has succeeded in demolishing a six-storey building on Varshavska Street in court
A six-storey building at 22 Varshavska Street is to be dismantled. This decision was made after 6 years of litigation. The NGO Our Ideal City, which built the building without permits, will have to compensate for the costs of dismantling it.
According to the Inspectorate of State Architectural and Construction Control of the city, on 1 October, the Cassation and Administrative Chamber of the Supreme Court upheld the decision of the 8th Administrative Court of Appeal of Lviv and ordered the NGO Our Ideal City to dismantle the unauthorised construction. Now it is up to the executive service. Once the enforcement proceedings are resumed, they will be able to start the dismantling procedure.
We would like to remind you that the case of the unauthorised construction at 22 Varshavska Street has been going on since 2018. The builders began to construct the building without any permits. At first, the city Inspectorate of State Architectural and Construction Control fined the developer and issued an order to eliminate the violations and stop construction work. But this decision was ignored, so the SACC fined the NGO again and issued an order to dismantle the building. But this was not done either. Then the inspectors went to court.
“In an unknown way, state registrar Khrystyna Boyko registered the ownership of all the apartments that were built there. We also appealed to law enforcement agencies and the court.
The first and second instance courts ruled to dismantle the structure, and the Supreme Court sent the case back for reconsideration. Thus, three more instances considered the case again, but we received a positive decision that it should be dismantled,” said Taras Pavlyshyn, head of the State Architectural and Construction Control Inspectorate.
This is not the first time that illegal construction projects will be dismantled in Lviv. The Inspectorate for State Architectural and Construction Control has already won courts on such buildings at 54 Varshavska Street; 4 Umanska Street; 112 Varshavska Street and 112 Na Nyva Street, where the developer was ordered to demolish the 7th to 12th floors of the building.
“Despite the fact that such cases can be considered in courts for years, the final decision to dismantle the illegal building should become another example for unscrupulous developers and evidence that all buildings in Lviv built without proper documents will be demolished,” said Taras Pavlyshyn.