Bucharest’s environmental commissioners fined 80,000 lei because the Sector 5 City Hall concreted part of the garden of a neighborhood on Fet Frumos street to make a sidewalk, and trees were “trapped” between the tiles. The companies that carried out the work were fined, and representatives of the city hall say that they will check whether the completed work complies with the building permit and this project.

“The Commissioner of the Environment of Bucharest has been informed that on Fet Frumos Street, in Sector 5 of the capital, works are being carried out to replace the curbs, widen the sidewalks, pave with concrete slabs and curbs in the gardens of the neighborhoods, all these operations are damaging the greenery and trees in the area.

A team of authorized GNM went to the place and found that the complaints were confirmed. The workers interfered with the green spaces in certain areas located around the perimeter of the blocks, practically canceling them through paving and concreting, including the trees that were framed on the sidewalk,” the Bucharest Environmental Guard posted on its Facebook page.

In addition to fines in the amount of 80 thousand lei, an additional sanction was also applied in the form of cancellation of works and bringing the land to its original state.

“As an additional measure, the commissioners have established a ban on changing the intended use or reducing the area of ​​land plots arranged as green plots and/or provided for as such by urban planning documentation,” Facebook also said.

In connection with HotNews.ro, the City Manager of Sector 5, Rares Hopincha, said that the city’s reconstruction work is being carried out in the area, which is being carried out by the City Hall’s company Infrastructura 5, and the fined companies are subcontractors.

“Two subcontractors have been fined for work carried out on Feth Frumosh Street, in an area adjacent to Sebastian Park, where new footpaths are being installed and open to the block’s garden. We will check whether the companies have complied with the provisions of the construction permit, if they have, we will appeal the fine, if they have not, we will demand that they be returned to their original state,” Hopincha explained.

When asked if this is an isolated case or if the Sector 5 City Hall has a policy of cutting out neighborhood gardens to make sidewalks or parking spaces, he says it depends on each case.

“There are areas where the gardens of neighborhoods enter, where there are no sidewalks or they are occupied by cars, and green spaces are created as compensation, we dismantle concrete platforms. In large agglomerations of blocks, pedestrians have nowhere to move,” explained Gopincha.