The ‘Save Home’ decree is arriving: here’s what can be remedied
"Millions of Italian homes are blocked by bureaucracy, our goal is to remedy these small internal irregularities", says Matteo Salvini
ROME – Verandas, mezzanines, bedrooms, windows, plasterboard partitions never declared to the municipal offices. With the ‘save home’ decree proposed by Matteo Salvini these works could soon be ‘condoned’. “The majority of Italian homes have small internal problems: the bathroom, the window, the veranda, the mezzanine. Millions of Italian homes are blocked by bureaucracy, our the objective is to remedy these small internal irregularities“, says the minister. The law decree strongly supported by the owner of the MIT is ready to arrive in the Council of Ministers this Wednesday and will serve precisely to regularize the small irregularities inside homes which very often, awaiting amnesty, prevent the sale of a property.
What can be remedied? The plan should concern individual structural modifications and not entirely illegal properties: “If one has built a villa with a swimming pool or with two additional floors, the answer is demolition, but if someone has eight square meters of bedroom made by their grandfather 30 years ago, it is right that it can go to the municipality: you pay and you peacefully become the owner of the property“, says the minister.
“The ‘save home’ decree moves on three increasing levels of irregularity”, we read in Il Sole 24 Ore:
- “Formal problems: For works carried out before 1977 there was no possibility of making variations during construction, so these modifications were never corrected. Two examples: a window that was on the project and then it was not built or a cornice that was 30 centimeters but which in reality is half a metre.
- The internal discrepancies: before 1977, when the design of a building was done, the plans of everything were not presented, but a ‘standard plan’ was enough. During the construction phase of the buildings, some elements were modified. These changes today are so many discrepancies.
- Non-remediable discrepancies: discrepancies that could be remedied at the time of carrying out the intervention but which can now no longer be regularized due to the double compliance mechanism. According to the Consolidated Building Act, today only elements that comply with the rules of the moment of construction of the elements and the moment of request for the amnesty can be remedied. It is a double barrier that the Salvini decree intends to eliminate. However, without prejudice to urban planning regularity: that is, it will not be possible to renovate properties built where it is forbidden to build”.
A draft of the text, however, has not yet been officially circulated, because the ministry offices are apparently ‘polishing’ it in search of a solution to the more delicate aspects. The Quirinale also raised some doubts by advising against the instrument of the decree law “as it is a non-urgent matter, inviting the drafting of a bill on this matter”. As a law decree, in fact, the text proposed in the Council of Ministers would be approved by the government and then arrive in Parliament and the work should last a few months for it to be transformed into law.