Milos: Stop work on a new five-star building intervention of the planning department after an appeal to the Council of State

The operation of different five-star edifice successful Milos has been blocked by the island’s readying authority, which has halted the enactment aft a tribunal involution and an entreaty by section stakeholders.

The Hellenic Society for the Environment and Culture (ELLET – Local Committee of Milos) announced connected Monday (6/4) that the Planning Department of Milos has stopped the enactment connected the project, which was successful the implementation phase.

Intervention aft appeal

The task concerns the operation of a five-star edifice analyzable successful Agios Konstantinos, comprising 14 buildings with aggregate pools, spanning the full peninsula. As noted by the section ELLET committee, this improvement raises superior concerns astir the alteration of the earthy scenery and the conversion of the country into a closed tourer complex.

As successful the lawsuit of different large tourism investment, the “White Coast” successful the Mytaka area, the applicable Building Authority (BMA) was asked to suspend projects for which it had granted permits, pursuing tribunal intervention. The Supreme Council of State (SCE) had been appealed to the Ellet (Local Committee of Milos) and the Group of Friends of Mountain and Milos Sea.

According to the announcement, this improvement came aft an entreaty by the Hellenic Society for the Environment and Culture and the Milos Mountain and Sea Friends Group, with the effect that the aforesaid bureau that had approved the licence was forced, aft a tribunal intervention, to suspend the work.

As highlighted this is different lawsuit of license, “with superior questions of legality, wherever the aforesaid competent work is called afterwards, aft judicial intervention, to suspend enactment that had approved“, portion it speaks of a vicious rhythm “repeated successful galore cases connected the island”.

Pressure from concern volume

This peculiar lawsuit is portion of a wider question of tourism concern connected the island, with immoderate 50 units underway, of which 26 person already entered the operation phase.

In the caller proceeding of the lawsuit for this project, a impermanent enactment of works was granted, portion a last determination connected the exertion is expected wrong the adjacent year.

In a statement, the members of ELLET Milos underline the value of the decision, stressing that immoderate specified involution by the CoE gives the land invaluable clip to sphere its authenticity and support its earthy environment. “Practices that bypass the rules and load the spot volition find america against them,” they note.

At the aforesaid time, involvement is turning to the Special Urban Plan (SPP) being drawn up for Milos and the different islands of the Southern Cyclades, which is expected to find aboriginal onshore usage and improvement limits. Within the adjacent fewer days, the last substance is expected to beryllium published, which volition bespeak the astir preferred script for the island, taking into relationship the comments submitted during the consultation process.

Stagnation successful Sarakiniko

Regarding the lawsuit of the attempted operation of a edifice portion successful Sarakiniko, the representation remains unchanged, contempt the interventions of the Ministry of Environment and Energy. It is recalled that already connected 27 January 2026, the Minister of Environment and Energy, Stavros Papastavrou, had requested successful penning from the concern institution and the Milos Town Planning Department the implicit restoration of the earthy landscape.

Specifically, helium had requested the removal of the formwork and reinforcement, the refilling of the instauration country with the excavation products recovered wrong the land, arsenic good arsenic the restoration of the earthy scenery of the area. At the aforesaid time, an bid had been issued to region immoderate gathering worldly oregon different installation from the site.

The lawsuit brings to the fore the statement astir the limits of tourism improvement successful Milos, but besides astir the request for a equilibrium betwixt economical improvement and the extortion of a peculiarly delicate earthy landscape.