No public discussion will be held in Babruisk
The residents of the
houses in Chapayev Street applied to various state institutions in
order to prove their right to the playground, a half of
which,including several trees.
“Athwart the legal
requirements, the construction of the grocery store wasn't discussed
with the people, as it was stated in the first collective appeal and
in each of my personal addresses to the state officials. It's quite
indicative that at first they answered nothing anboout the public
discussion, ignoring the matter and writing that the question of the
construction was agreed with the executive committee. Only when I
applied to the Presidential Administration and my appeal was
forwarded to the Mahiliou Regional Executive Committee, I received an
answer,” says Ala Shpakova, a resident of house No. 72b.
In
a letter signed by first deputy head of the executive committee,
Anatol Chorny, it is stated that teh construction of the grocery
store was planned in the space between the houses and was approved by
the executive committee. The open company “Belgravia” was given
the right to lease this space as early as in the last autumn.
“The
local dwellers thought that the site was meant fot their recreation,
but were wrong. We will try to find out when the space near the
houses was assigned the status of leasable space, and where are the
borders of this space, as far as Anatol Chorny wrote that “the yard
space wasn't violated by the building site. Pitifully enough, judging
by this official paper, we can hardly expect any public discussion,”
comments the Babruisk resident.
The official says that under
paragraph 5 of the Regulation "On the procedure of public
discussion of architectural, urban planning and construction
activities”, public discussions aren't held if the construction
projects are approved. “However, in this case the customer and the
contractor shall put information about the building in a place,
available for viewing by the public, which
wasn't done,” reads the letter.
“Anatol
Chorny agrees that the absence of the passport of the construction is
a violation. however, as far as the shop is still being built, it is
most probably considered as an insignificant one. We were "comforted"
that the city executive committee was charged
with the control over the implementation of the legal requirements,
but it won't return us our ground,” says Ala Shpakova. “It's a
great pity that the opinion of the inhabitants
is of no interest to
anyone and is never
taken into account”.
