“Some call them “residues”, some call them “isolated”, they are the so-called landlocked lots.
These are undeveloped areas, literally surrounded by construction and urbanization.
With the passage of time, in some peripheral neighborhoods of Taranto, especially in San Vito, Lama and Talsano (but not only), certain branched models of settlement development have created an urban fabric with some empty pieces, swallowed up by the urbanizing tide of the years that they were. One of the open urban planning issues of the past, but with a large paradox”.
This was declared by Massimiliano Stellato, regional and municipal councilor, with the municipal councilors Carmen Casula and Michele Patano.
“Those who have violated the rules and built illegally, right next to those who are now owners of landlocked lots, find themselves with a property (or more) built in full compliance, thanks to amnesties and amnesties. Instead, the owners of landlocked lots who have not violated those rules find themselves with a handful of weeds in their hands. It is an issue that deserves justice. Those who have respected the laws must be allowed to have the same “building permit” as those who have acquired the right to remedy their building violations.
Administrative jurisprudence has repeatedly specified that an “urbanistically landlocked” lot can be considered buildable, even in the absence of the implementing urban planning instrument, only when there is with certainty a situation perfectly corresponding to that deriving from the execution of an implementation plan.
Consequently, the area must be buildable, but not yet built on, it must fall within an area entirely affected by construction and equipped with all the primary and secondary urbanization works envisaged by the urban planning instruments and, finally, it must be enhanced by a building project fully compliant with the PRG (General Town Plan).
For this last requirement, in consideration that the Municipality of Taranto has recently entrusted the drafting of its PUG (General Urban Plan) to Prof. Karrer’s team, in the presence of the branch councillor, we will ask for a discussion on the topic to propose to the municipal administration the establishment of a “special commission” of experts that can facilitate the interpretation of still open urban planning issues, such as that of landlocked lots, making use of local professionals, perhaps in a network with each other.
The issue of the landlocked lots – conclude Stellato, Casula and Patano – is an urban planning issue, it is true, but also and above all one of social justice”.
