What is one of the main disadvantages that you notice in the numerous housing complexes that have been chaotically developed in the big cities of Romania in recent years? I don’t know what you will answer to this question, but I do know that I will: the distance between the blocks is very small.

Thermosanitized blocks in BucharestPhoto: HotNews.ro / Viktor Kosmei

This can best be understood by walking through an area dominated by apartment buildings built before the 2000s, and then approaching an apartment complex built relatively recently. In the case of most new residential complexes, it will be very easy for you to understand that the space between blocks is smaller, write Patru Pereți journalists.

The interesting part of this whole story is that the real estate developers in this situation do not follow the legal rules, but the blocks are built legally, based on the building permits issued by the municipalities. Let’s see how it got into this situation.

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