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Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities

Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities. N ational association of local authorities in Serbia. What is SCTM?. N ational association of local authorities in Serbia F ounded in 1953 167 members

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Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities

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  1. Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities National association of local authorities in Serbia

  2. What is SCTM? • National association of local authorities in Serbia • Founded in 1953 • 167 members • SCTM is an organization dedicated to the promotion and development of local self-government, standing for their interests and of the co-operation among local authorities.

  3. Committee on Urban Planning • One of the 10 permanent working bodies of SCTM • Consists of 20 members, urban planners and architects from Serbian towns • Deals with issues of spatial and urban planning, land management and housing on municipal level • Supported by GTZ project “Land management/Cadastre in Serbia”

  4. Informal settlements in Serbia • The phenomenon of illegal construction in Serbia was recorded in all major cities during 1960’s • The most illegal buildings were constructed during 1990’s • The most significant cause of illegal construction during 1990’s is the flow of refugees from Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo

  5. Key reasons for illegal construction in Serbia • Inadequate housing and land policies and economics, during socialist urbanization (1970-1990) • Inflexible system of urban planning • Arrival of refugees during the wars in the ex-YU region • Political toleration of illegal construction as an informal means of social policy during the period of radical crisis • High prices and very limited supply of building land and infrastructure • Time-consuming and expensive procedures of obtaining building permits

  6. Policy approaches and strategies in the past Law on Planning and Construction from 2003: • An emergency, post festum regulation aimed at regulating the conditions for illegal construction rehabilitation • Reduction of requirements and documentation in the permit issuing procedure • Legalization fees were to be determined by municipalities • Over 370.000 illegal buildings were reported (estimated number considerably higher)

  7. The main types of informal settlements in Serbia • Slums • Substandard old settlements • Old residential districts with added housing premises • Unplanned construction on State-owned agricultural land • Compact, newly built illegal settlements • Illegal construction in protected urban and non-urban areas

  8. NEGOTIN • located in North-eastern part of Serbia, close to Bulgarian and Romanian border • 38 rural settlements and town of Negotin, with approximately 20.000 inhabitants, town area 1.068 ha

  9. NEGOTIN There are 6 main informal settlements in the town: • “Rastoka” - 70 ha, with about 300 objects, no water supply and sewage • “Badnjevo” -80 ha, 200 objects, no water supply and sewage • “Radujevacki put” - 80ha, 300 objects, nearby waste dump, limitted infrastructure, no sewege, high level of ground water • “Samarinovacki put” -18 ha, 100 objects, limitted infrastructure • “Kod groblja”-15 ha, 100 objects, no water supply and sewage • “Temisvarka” -14ha, 50 objects, no water supply and sewage

  10. NEGOTIN • Town area is divided into 2 740 cadastral plots. • about 1 050 object, within area of 277 ha (26% of town area) • About 4000 inhabitants live in illegaly constructed dwellings

  11. NEGOTIN • No municipal spatial plan • Master plan made in 1980 • 15 regulatory, zoning plans • Cadastralmapsinanalogform. • No digital cadastral plans • Cadastral data outdated and not acurate

  12. NEGOTIN • There is the department for Urban planning in the Municipality of Negotin which is willing to cooperate and to nominate few of their staff for the trainings

  13. KRALJEVO • Kraljevo is located in the central part of Serbia occupying the area around the lower course of the Ibar river and the middle part of the Zapadna Morava river • The largest municipality in Serbia with the area of 1,529 km2, • About 127,000 people live in the Municipality of Kraljevo.

  14. KRALJEVO • The town of Kraljevo - 70,000 inhabitants • Large number of refugees inhabited this town after the war time period (around 20.000 internaly displaced persons) • over 9000 objects were registered as illegal in 2003

  15. KRALJEVO • The part of the town called Ribnica (30.000 inhabitants) is recognized as a settlement with a largest number of illegal constructions. • 2 or 3 urban complexes could be recognized within this settlement • 10 km2 • 2300 objects • 6000 inhabitants

  16. KRALJEVO • Municipality of Kraljevo and its Urban planning department are actively involved in working with SCTM Urban planning committee • Municipal administration showed great interest to participate in the project

  17. Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities Committee on Urban Planning www.skgo.org

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