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Urban planner Imeldi Sokoli spoke about the ownership issues facing the residents of Theth, at a time when IKMT has been launching an action for the demolition of buildings built without permits in the area for a week.
Sokoli stated that in some rural mountainous areas, including Theth and Vermoshi, customary law of property division has been implemented and therefore there is no initial registration of it.
"ASHK or any predecessor institution of this agency, or Hipoteka in the vernacular, has failed to make a division of ownership with the traditional properties of the area. Why has this failed? Because those territories, those areas have applied customary law. The properties there, is a specific case like Thethi, but also Vermoshi, the village of Curraj i Epërm, but there are also 4 other villages in the south with these problems. I can mention here Lenie, another village in Gramsh, which has extraordinary potential just like Thethi. With the rural mountainous area, it happens that there are many villages where there is no initial registration of ownership, so there is no initial act for me to enter into a transaction with the one I will buy, or for me who wants to sell it, to sell it to an investor or someone else ," he told "A2 CNN".
He also said that some residents in Theth have managed to obtain legalization certificates. The urban planner adds that some of them were distributed by Prime Minister Edi Rama himself, but do not enjoy ownership certificates, which would consequently give them the right to request construction permits for their service facilities, such as hotels and guesthouses.
"There is something, we do not have a general study of the territory, but we have some points where Thethi has legalization certificates but not ownership certificates. The Prime Minister himself distributed legalization certificates before the electoral campaign, but they are not valid as documents to go and request a building permit, so they are not sufficient. The problem here is that we have 300-year-old towers that are legally without a permit.
"This is the problem that Thethi has. So we do not have an instrument that regulates this with the residents of Thethi to legalize properties. It is not that we do not have studies for property development because it is the General Local Plan of the Shkodra municipality itself that offers this. We also have some studies on building codes in the area, but for this to start as an initial act you have to own the property, in one way or another ," he said.
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