The request was approved at the City Council meeting on January 24, 2023 recognition of the municipal road connecting the village of Kapsali with the village of Kalamos as the main and only of paragraph 2 of Article 1 of the Presidential Decree dated May 24, 1985 (Government Gazette 270D/1985). According to this decision, which will it will then be forwarded to the Decentralized Administration and subsequently published in the Government Gazette, The road connecting the two settlements will be designated as a main road. Which means that allows those who own plots of land facing this road to build on them before the permanent abolition of building outside settlement areas after it came into effect Law 4759/2020 to modernize urban planning and land-use legislation.

What are the rules for small plots of land in areas outside the city plan?

Under the law 4759/2020 regarding the modernization of urban planning and land-use legislation passed three years ago, the conditions for off-plan construction (construction outside the boundaries of cities and settlements), were amended, and the exemptions that allowed construction on plots smaller than four stremmata were repealed.

However, a transition period was granted for the issuance of building permits for smaller lots as well, providing for preliminary approval or the issuance of a building permit within two years of the law’s enactment, with construction permitted within four years. Because, during the two-year period provided for by the law, the public did not respond—a situation in which the pandemic and the energy crisis played a role—the government decided to grant an extension under pressure from the engineering community and members of parliament. More specifically The Ministry of the Environment has granted a one-year extension, until December 9, 2023, to all owners of plots smaller than 4 stremmata to submit applications for preliminary approval to build on their plots located outside the city plan.

Which streets in Kythira allow for construction on plots smaller than 4 stremmas that are outside the town plan but front onto those streets?.

Right to Issuance of a building permit by December 2023 landowners have less than 4 stremmas who have facade facing main streets (classified as national, provincial, and municipal). On Kythira, the only major roads are the provincial roads designated by the Royal Decree of February 6, 1956 and they are as follows:

66. Agia Pelagia – Kythira – Kapsali via Potamos.
67. Livadi – Mylopotamos – Areoi to Provincial Road 66.
68. Aroniadika – Mitata – Fratsia – Kontolianika.
69. Potamos – Karavas – Agia Pelagia.
70. Pitsinianika – Kalokairina – Myrtidia Monastery – Beach.
71. Fratsia – Paleopolis.
72. Friligianika – Mitata – Makrona Bridge – Paleopolis – Avlaimon.
73. Kastritsianika – Holy Monastery – Paleopolis.

Interested property owners should consult their engineers as soon as possible to obtain more complete information regarding the issuance of a building permit before it is too late.

Below is a map showing the provincial roads, and attached are the City Council’s decision and the Royal Decree.

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