In Albania, the central government can issue a building permit wherever it normally pleases. More specifically, the National Council of the Territory. Regardless of whether the Municipality has a General Urban Plan that defines which areas are for development or not.
And you don't even need to be a Strategic Investor (i.e. investing on a large scale). You just need to have the tall beard.
A recent example is a permit in Gonia, Livadi, where on 2,250 square meters, which according to the General Urban Plan belong to a protected zone, and just 10 meters away from the wave, a total of 6,280 square meters are being built!!!
Of course, half of it is considered underground construction, because the plot is on a slope.
Six-story apartment buildings, right behind what has always been the haunt of the people of Chimaera and of tourists looking for a quiet, family beach, not hit by the waves. With untouched, green hills full of cypress trees around and a small chapel, Agios Markos, to remind us that where there is God, there is also man.
Our fellow villagers, of course, who sold the plot or gave it in exchange, deserve only congratulations and praise for the vision for the development of the area they have. The money that will provide shade on the concrete beach behind them will certainly cool them down.
Reader's article from Himara
Εδώ στη Χιμάρα πάντως διαδίδουν πως αφού τα βρήκε η εκκλησία με τον κατασκευαστή δεν υπάρχει λόγος για αντιδράσεις