The concept of illegal construction refers to the construction of a residential or other (business, production, auxiliary, etc.) facility without a prescribed urban or building permit, i.e. to the addition, adaptation or reconstruction of a facility without previously obtained valid documentation for the start of the aforementioned works. Estimates range from 2,000,000 to even 5,000,000 illegal buildings on the territory of the RS. Today, practically all groups of buildings are being built illegally, with a very wide range of perpetrators of this crime, in all locations without any exception. Out of six legal attempts to solve illegal construction, the result was always the same - unsuccessful or with very little success. In the sea of factors that influence the failure to solve this huge problem, the most important are: the parties have no interest in legalizing their objects, unresolved property legal relations, the sluggishness and anemic state in solving the accumulated problems, the lack of quality and motivated staff, the purchase of social peace. In Serbia, as of February of this year, a total of 358,680 legalization decisions were made. At this rate, the legislation would only be completed in a few decades, although the deadline for completion is much shorter. On the planning side, legalization is a serious wound and scar tissue in the planning of a certain area. Minimizing planning norms in the legalization process and reducing them to two values (compatibility by purpose and number of floors) renders the entire planning and urban planning system meaningless. By abolishing the fee/contribution for the development of construction land, the construction of infrastructure is significantly more difficult and directed towards commercial loans. Observance of the Law and norms in the field of urbanism with the participation of the construction inspection as a punching fist is of crucial importance in the return of the weakened state in the defense of building land and land for other purposes from urban usurpers.
Dragan Nedić (Mon,) studied this question.