Matteo Salvini’s Save Home Decree will reach the Council of Ministers on Friday 24 May. With two certain elements: the amnesty will only concern small internal and external changes. While essential variations will be excluded, i.e. those that have an impact on the stability of the property. In addition to interventions carried out without permits. It will then be possible to regularize the so-called small discrepancies in derogation of the double compliant law. That is, the obligation to respect the rules in force at the time of construction and the current ones. The so-called construction tolerance will instead be granted to transport an internal partition or to build a plasterboard wall. And in general for everything that has a load-bearing function inside the home. Including mezzanines.
The compliant double
Those who have avoided communicating a building detail which is permitted by the law in force at the time of construction will be able to access the amnesty. However, the completion of works prior to 1977 was not completed. This was the year before the Bucalossi law. At the time, no floor plans were designed when designing the building. A so-called “standard plan” was enough. During the construction phase, modifications such as the division of a room or the construction of an extra bathroom are today discrepancies. The decree will not even intervene on the regularization of Milan’s urban regeneration plans. Manufacturing tolerances will be raised compared to the current tolerance threshold of 2%. Even partial discrepancies will be regularized, as long as they do not affect the structure of the building. The amnesty also includes the expansion of windows and balconies. As well as outdoor awnings.
Buildings from before the Seventies
The sun 24 hours explains that the provision will affect buildings built before the end of the seventies (even if the precise dates are being defined). Therefore, it will become possible to remedy the construction site executive tolerances. The fact remains that the stability of the building must not be compromised. The same goes for partial discrepancies, such as windows or balconies: in this case regularization with a simple penalty is envisaged. In conclusion, there will be no amnesties for essential changes and interventions carried out in the absence of permits. For Giorgio Spaziani Testa, president of Confedilizia, the arrival in the Council of Ministers of the housing decree represents “good news” and “will finally allow us to evaluate the merits of a text on which so far too much imagination has been worked”.
Confbuilding and the opposition
The opinion of the property owners’ association “will be favourable”, explains Spaziani Testa, if the text “reflects what was illustrated to Confbuilding and other organizations in the meeting at the Ministry of Infrastructure on 4 April: if, therefore, it is a measure aimed at resolving the numerous situations of obstacle to the marketability of goods due to small irregularities”. The opposition, on the other hand, openly speaks of an amnesty for Salvini’s “building peace”: «Salvini’s storytelling on the elusive ‘save-home’ plan is grotesque: it sends us back to a fairy-tale vision, citing ‘bedrooms’, ‘little windows’ and small irregularities. All things that today can be remedied very well with the laws currently in force. Unfortunately, the more Salvini exposes himself to this bombastic plan of his, the more it smells like an amnesty even from a distance of kilometers”, attack the M5S parliamentarians of the Environment-Public Works Commissions of the Chamber and Senate in a note.
