The authorities of Zakopane notified the prosecutor's office regarding the cutting of trees at Brzozowskiego Street. Trees with over 100 years old went to the ax, where the city hall did not agree. The clipping started in front of helpless officials and policemen. The investor wants to put an apartment building here.
Key facts:
- Zakopane officials have previously issued four refusals to fell. After removing the trees, they notified the prosecutor's office about the possibility of “damage in the plant or animal world in significant sizes”.
- The oldest of the trees were up to 140 years old. They were impressive and completely healthy.
- The investor would like to build an apartment building there. However, the application for a building permit is suspended.
There was no consent for felling, but there were four refusals – and no reaction from the company performing work on behalf of the investor.
The illegal – according to the authorities of Zakopane – fell down of trees at Brzozowskiego Street. For the first time, the sound of the area was heard at the end of April. Policemen, city guards and Zakopane officials arrived. Employees were reluctant to withdraw from work.
Not for long. Shortly after the picnic, the roar of the drank disturbed the peace of the inhabitants again. This time he was joined by a bang of falling trees. The oldest of them were over 100 years old.
Source: Łukasz Filipowicz
There is no consent for felling or construction. They cut anyway
The works started in front of the police officers, city guards and city officials again. Police officers instructed employees that an illegal felling of trees could have consequences. This time the company's representatives did not stop their work.
As we have already informed on tvn24.pl, a private investor wants to build an apartment building at a clippings. However, we learned from the poviat eldership that for now a private entrepreneur has not received a building permit.
As the Tatra Staroste Andrzej Skupień informed us, since August last year, the procedure of a building permit is suspended. The investor was obliged to supplement the deficiencies in the documentation, but in response he suspended the proceedings.
Source: Łukasz Filipowicz
The investor also has no consent to felling trees. According to the municipality, officials have already issued four refusals on the entrepreneur's applications. – We cannot allow developers to do what they want, without respect for our common natural heritage. Zakopane must develop, but in a balanced and responsible way – argued the head of the Environmental Protection Department Jan Schwenk.
Source: Łukasz Filipowicz
Notification to the prosecutor's office
As Schwenk informed us on Thursday, about eight trees were cut out. In this case, officials notified the prosecutor's office and the police.
– The notification applies to Article 181 Paragraph 1 of the Penal Code. We did not indicate in it who committed this crime: an investor or contractor. This will be decided by the prosecutor's office in the course of the proceedings – Schwenk told us.
The recipe cited by the head of the department says that “destruction in the plant or animal world in significant sizes” is punishable by six months to even eight years in prison.
Source: Zakopane City Hall
“The investor added a penalty to the price of apartments”
– We have these trees well inventoried, we have full documentation and we will use all legal measures to punish the guilty. The administrative penalty for their cut -out will probably be a total of several hundred thousand zlotys, but it is difficult to estimate the exact amount for now – the mayor of Zakopane told us Łukasz Filipowicz.
The local government noted that most likely “the investor simply added the amount of penalty to the price of apartments”, which he plans to build there. – This is hooligan behavior, these employees laughed at our face. It is sad because we couldn't do anything. The recipes are leaky, they don't give us any tools to prevent cutting – the mayor added.
The investor tried in the City Hall for permission to cut 29 trees, but – as we hear in the municipality – employees orally informed policemen that they plan to remove 12 specimens.
Zakopane officials informed earlier that the trees grew on the plot naturally – they were not planted by man. They all had well -educated crowns, did not have damage or signs of diseases, which is why they constituted a “valuable element of high greenery both in terms of nature and landscapes.” Officials calculated that among the 29 trees there were “common spruces, venom clones, elevated ash and gray alder have between 40 and 100 years old, while the age of six European larchs is similar and three exceeds 140 years”.
We tried to contact the developer to ask him questions. Unsuccessfully. We reached the former investor's representative. He stated, however, that he was no longer working for that person and could not contact us on Friday. The Zakopane local government also did not provide us with information about whose orders were to be carried out.
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Source: tvn24
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Source: tvn24.pl
Source of the main photo: Łukasz Filipowicz