The environment and cultural property on the Danube coast are threatened in yet another of a series of cases of intensive urbanization of green areas. The adoption of the Detailed Regulation Plan for Line Park in Belgrade, which envisages the construction of the “Marina Dorćol” complex, was accompanied by numerous illegalities, and the problems regarding endangerment of cultural property and the environment are already visible in the earliest stages of project implementation. These problems are visible to the citizens, but not to the investor and the City Administration, which adopted the plan illegally.
The development and adoption of the Detailed Regulation Plan for Line Park in Belgrade was accompanied by numerous illegalities, non-compliance with hierarchically higher level plans, conditions for the nature protection and cultural assets, as well as omissions in the process of strategic environmental impact assessment. Despite of the negative opinion of the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, which indicated that the plot of land where the monument of culture declared in 2013 “Power and Light” thermal power plant is located, should not be used for construction, the City Administration of the City of Belgrade illegally adopted the plan. Moreover, the strategic environmental assessment did not analyze and determine the impact on the environment and cultural property.
For this reason RERI requested from the Constitutional Court to annul the urban plan that allows the investor to build a residential-business complex with a total area of 195,853 m2 with a total of 564 apartments, 39 shops, 68 business apartments, as well as 1181 underground parking spaces. For the sake of comparison, Usce Shopping Center (the second largest in the region) has a total area of approximately 130,000 m2 with 1,300 parking spaces.
