Berlin: Trees usually are not allowed to be felled – environmental activists are stopping the development of a refugee dwelling | EUROtoday

There has been a dispute over deliberate refugee lodging in Berlin for years. Now the builder, the state-owned housing firm Gesobau, has suffered one other defeat in court docket.

Gesobau failed with an pressing utility in opposition to a prohibition order from the Pankow district workplace earlier than the Berlin Administrative Court. The utility was supposed to acquire approval for tree felling so as to have the ability to implement the development challenge. Gesobau does have the chance to take motion in opposition to the choice of the executive court docket and file a criticism with the upper administrative court docket. However, based on the German Association for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND), the felling season ends in a couple of weeks. Tree felling is subsequently excluded “before the start of the growing season”.

“It is incomprehensible to us why Gesobau has been trying for years to push through its oversized construction plans for the green inner courtyards on Pankow’s Ossietzkystrasse with a legally unsustainable Rambo mentality,” says the managing director of BUND Berlin, Gabi Jung, commenting on the choice. Specifically, it’s about constructing a refugee dwelling for 400 refugees in two leafy courtyards in Berlin-Pankow. Residents concern the lack of inexperienced and play areas.

In order to implement the development, Gesobau is counting on particular constructing legislation for refugee lodging after earlier plans for normal housing development failed.

A compromise proposal drawn up by residents and native politicians was rejected by Gesobau and the Senate. This envisaged the development of round 70 residences.

“The measure is full,” complains the residents’ initiative

Residents’ initiatives and nature conservation associations accuse the corporate of intentionally ignoring options and circumventing species safety necessities. The Pankow district initially reluctantly supported the challenge, however has now brazenly sided with the residents. In addition, there’s anger over years of exclusion fences, video surveillance and excessive prices, although no development has been carried out but.

Britta Krehl, from the Green Kiez Pankow residents’ initiative, criticizes each Gesobau and the Senate. “The measure is full. For years, the Senate and Gesobau have wanted to enforce their concrete head policy at the expense and with the tenants’ money. Instead of putting pressure on authorities and wasting money, viable and sustainable solutions can only be created together. The time to give in is now.”

Most not too long ago, the Pankow district workplace prohibited the elimination of bushes and bushes with out an exception underneath species safety legislation. The nature conservation associations BUND Berlin, Berlin State Association for Nature Conservation (BLN) and NaturFreunde Berlin had requested Gesobau to implement early compensatory measures. However, these measures weren’t absolutely delivered.