Illegal construction - individual benefit and immeasurable social damage

Abstract

The paper will analyze the phenomenon of illegal construction in the Republic of Serbia, its emergence as a social phenomenon, an attempt to suppress and evident escalation lately. Legal solutions will be analyzed and their contribution to the suppression of illegal construction will be valued. The emphasis will be given to the current situation and the assessment of the future effects of the immeasurable social damage caused by illegal construction on the entire spatial environment and the living environment. The paper will illustrate several case studies that represent different levels of illegality, from the construction of objects in protected nature reserves or zones in which they should never have been built, from the disrespect procedure's of the received valid technical documentation, to the exceeding of the dimensions of the facilities in position and height, of which each individual case presents illegal construction with different negative impacts on the environment.