Bulgaria’s ‘demolition derby’ begins

Holiday-home owners are on alert as Bulgaria begins its purge of illegal homes…

Bulgaria's Directorate for National Construction Supervision (DNCS), which started inspecting the legality of completed and ongoing construction along the Black Sea coastline on February 25, has already issued orders for the demolition of 57 units. Twenty five of them are on the north coastline and 32 are along the Southern Coast, the institution announced on its website.

Аccording to the Spatial Planning of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coastline Act, which entered into force on January 1 2008, all entities erecting illegal constructions on the beaches were obliged to voluntarily demolish them within a month of the law coming into effect. If they failed to do so, DNCS would order the demolition of the buildings.

Two inspecting expert panels from the DNCS will be checking construction along the northern and the Southern coastline until March 7.All violations of Bulgaria’s existing regulations on regional development and zoning would be sanctioned in line with the administrative offense and sanctions law, DNCS said.