Houses on Tsar Shishman Street can be demolished, upgrading is allowed
In the mid-1990s, changes in the detailed development plan (PUP) were settled with two, three, even with four floors above those of the buildings (which are on two or three floors), explained from the Sredets District.
« Apparently, some of the private property houses have been announced for sale because we periodically have inquiries from citizens (probably potential buyers) what they can build there, » the area said after Dnevnik’s questions.
Opera singers bequeathed their house to the church
The peeling facade of one – of King Shishman # 11, is covered with zebra because it is dangerous for passers -by. The house has been uninhabited for years, windows yawning, it is empty and gloomy inside. It lived in the opera singer Ekaterina Apostolova (1917-2011), specialized in Germany until 1942, and then for many years the leading soprano of the Sofia Opera, and her daughter Kristina Gorancheva. She was also an opera singer who toured in the Milan La Scala, their loved one, the journalist Eliana Mitova, told.
Two years after Apostolova rests, her daughter died – in June 2013. In their last years, the two lived secluded and hardly learned about the arrangement. During their lifetime, an employee from the municipality came to exhort them to build a taller building and both to receive apartments, remembered Mitova, who witnessed the meeting.
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The two opera singers were highly religious and bequeathed their part of the house – the commercial area in the ground floor and the entire first floor of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC). The second floor is with another owner who is abroad, according to living in neighboring buildings.
More than ten years after the donation, the house remains uninhabited with gaping windows. The church sporadically cleanses her and takes the rent from the shop in the ground floor. There was recently an inspection of an investor candidate, accompanied by a church representative, neighbors said.
On April 4, Dnevnik sent written questions to the BOC about the intentions for the donated house, but there is still no answer until the work on this text is completed.
Sredets region: can also be upgraded 6 floors
The changes in the neighborhood of the neighborhood allow the current two floors to be upgraded with two more attic. Developing a work development plan (RUP) could be overcome (reduced) distances and prove that it is possible to upgrade even with two more floors, warned the chief architect of the Sredets region Christian Yarichkov. As the building, as well as the neighboring numbers 9 and 13, is old and it is obvious that it would not withstand upgrade, it is very likely that it will be demolished and built completely new.
There are no documents for investment intentions in the Sredets region, as these houses are part of a group monument of culture and any interventions are resolved by the higher instance – the Municipal Division « Architecture and Urban Planning » (NAG) after coordination with the National Institute of Real Cultural Heritage (NINKN) and the Ministry of Culture.
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Investor interest will probably have to cover all three houses on 9, 11, 11 and 13 Street, because the Cultural Heritage Act requires that the general architectural appearance should be maintained and it will be difficult to build separately.
What does the Cultural Heritage Act allows
The removal of the status of single cultural monuments of the three houses took place in 1988, with no information on what motives it was made, NINKN explained to Dnevnik. However, with the lower degree as part of a group monument of culture, the houses designated for demolition have protection under the Cultural Heritage Act.
« Investment projects for the Group NCC are agreed as the protection not only preserves the buildings but also the visual connections, the landscape and the overall appearance. If only one building from the group NCC is built, it must be in the architectural style of the others and preserve the volumes and silhouettes of the ensemble. »
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If only one building from a group NCC is to be built, there should be a regulation together with the rules for possible interventions within the particular group monument, commented on the case and arch. Petkana Bakalova, who has completed a two -year course in the preservation of cultural heritage at Ecole de Chaillot – Paris and NINC.
Dnevnik also asked NAG whether documents were received for investment intentions for the three houses on Tsar Shishman Street and was expecting an answer.
