The much-vaunted reform of the regional urban planning law in Campania does not bring any concrete innovation or equal benefit to the territory that goes beyond mere propaganda in perfect sheriff style. It is, apparently, a discreet agglomeration of chatter and nice words, with particular attention to the currently very fashionable concepts of land consumption and the prevention of any usurpation of the same. In reality, unfortunately, no problem is solved. The only apparent and only formal but not substantial innovation is given by the fact that the original municipal urban plan (in Campania approved only in very few cases) is replaced by what is called a “structural plan”, which absorbs any previous urban planning instrumentation. Unfortunately, however, no one says that in restricted areas any urban plan cannot produce effects if it does not comply with the landscape plan. Ergo, if a structural plan were to be approved in Ischia on the basis of the guidelines of the new regional law, any urban-building transformation activity would still have to be subject to the current landscape plan. And since it does not provide for any possibility of carrying out innovative or modifying works, whatever you want, the absolute uselessness of this legislative activity of the regional parliament is easily demonstrated, especially in our area.
The new landscape protection plan, which would be the great innovation in the matter on which not only Campania, but many other Italian regions, are in default and/or very seriously late. And it is truly naive (because in the end it is enough to get information from those who are really competent in the matter) to ignore that all the reforms in the world can be carried out, but as long as they are subject to the hierarchically superior legislative source, nothing in reality will be able to change. The so-called Urbani code, as is known, requires the adaptation of any urban planning instrument to the provisions of the landscape plan. Until then any urban planning provision or provision will be completely useless. If Salvini’s home-saving decree itself were to abolish the requirement of double compliance in favor of mono-compliance, what could represent a sort of amnesty in many areas of Italy would certainly not be valid in Ischia as in any other restricted area and not only for the failure to adapt to the landscape plan, but also for the inadmissibility – for example – of an application for assessment of urban planning conformity, as happened in the case of some imminent demolitions in the hotel sector on our island.
Meanwhile, right people in the right place? I don’t even pay them.
