The so-called save home plan of the Minister of Infrastructure and Deputy Prime Minister, Matteo Salvini, seems ready to arrive in the Council of Ministers. The measure aimed at regularizing and remedying the slight building defects found within the domestic walls should be examined this week. It should arrive in the pre-council tomorrow morning and in the CDM on Friday. But what does it consist of? And why shouldn’t we talk about amnesty? Let’s try to understand the contents, based on the latest news, while waiting for further clarifications.
Talking about this save home plan, Salvini himself wanted to point out that “a house plan does indeed mean amnesty, but of small internal discrepancies also due to conflicting laws. A different concept from amnesty, which means the possibility of fixing works that are not legal today.” The provision should thus provide the possibility of remedying some internal changessuch as moving walls and partitions or closing verandas, and small external changessuch as the expansion of windows and balconies or the creation of outdoor awnings.
As explained by Sun 24 Hours, the decree “will contain interventions on construction tolerances and partial discrepancies”, i.e. “minor discrepancies that do not affect the structure of a building, its essential characteristics”. All with the aim of allowing the possibility of remedying “small interventions that are not fully legitimate, but not condoning abuses”.
Apparently, the measure – which should affect buildings built before the end of the 1970s – takes into consideration small deviations from the authorized parameters which do not represent a construction offense And interventions “not excessively heavy and impactful” which do not require qualification, permission and communication.
As always specified by Sun 24 HoursThe save home plan should be divided into three levels:
- problems of a formal nature, such as representation errors in the project which were corrected at the time of execution on site and which therefore cause a misalignment between the authorized project and the reality of the properties;
- the internal differences, which are not only formal, such as the modifications of some elements carried out before 1977, when the presentation of all the plans was not foreseen during the project, and the internal modifications that occurred over the decades;
- the discrepancies that could be remedied when the intervention was carried out, but which can now no longer be regularized due to the double compliance mechanism.
