09/20/2025, 09:28

Προσθέσαμε σημείωση για μια δυσκολία που αντιμετώπισαν κάποιοι στην διαδικασία υπογραφής.


New petition description:

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Petition of Associations and Organisations of civil society on Paros.

On July 23, 2025, the Ministry of Environment and Energy submitted a draft Presidential Decree to the Council of State for approval of a Special Urban Plan in the Kolymbithres area, which is on property owned by the company EKTER. This matter was introduced for discussion under urgent procedures during the second summer session of the Council of State and discussed at a meeting on August 12, 2025. Following this meeting, the Minutes, along with the Council of State’s opinion, are expected to be issued shortly.

All this without any information or request for an opinion from the Municipality of Paros, without any consultation with citizens, as is required for this type of investment project. In other words, a process concerning a very important development and environmental issue for Paros is unfolding without the involvement of society and its political representatives, with the obvious aim of circumventing the expected reactions and creating a fait accompli.

The new Special Urban Plan of EKTER was submitted after the previous plan was rejected by the Council of State in 2023 as unlawful, during the preventive legality review of the draft Presidential Decree. Based on press reports, it does provide for reduced construction compared to the previous plan (approximately 8,200 square meters instead of 12,000 square meters), but it still constitutes a major intervention in a protected and sensitive area of Paros, one of the few remaining areas without the problems of excessive construction that alters the landscape and consumes the island's limited resources, an intervention that will put unbearable pressure on its weak infrastructure. And all this for yet another luxury hotel, combined with innovations such as glamping (!), which are controversial for the Cyclades, and which, given the current situation in Paros, has absolutely nothing to offer the place.