The State Audit Office found 100 suspected cases of “illicit buildings” that are at least partly located in grassland and denounced them in May this year. He also recommended that the state of Upper Austria investigate these cases and make the respective municipalities responsible for ensuring that the land is used in accordance with the intended use. What has happened since then?
So, excavators with wrecking balls like in the cartoon haven’t arrived yet. There was once talk of a kind of “amnesty law” for those old cases that are only partially in grassland and have a building permit. Haimbuchner’s office says: “We are currently intensively examining what options the state legislature has to develop a solution to this nationwide problem. In detail, however, this is a very complex matter of building regulations and, above all, spatial planning law, with the key question being whether a constitutionally compliant state law solution is even possible.”Additional staff for building lawVery complex and long-term procedures are to be expected in the examination of suspected cases suggested by the State Audit Office , which is why the state’s construction law group received additional staff, amounting to 1.5 full-time equivalents, to be able to handle this. The calls for comments from the community began recently and there is still no information as to whether suspected cases have been confirmed or not.
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