Limassol official calls for faster action on dangerous buildings after balcony collapse
Limassol EOA chairman Yiannis Tsouloftas said 60 buildings require immediate evacuation and called current legal procedures slow and ineffective.
Limassol, Cyprus. Limassol EOA chairman Yiannis Tsouloftas called on Friday for faster legal procedures to evacuate dangerous buildings after a balcony collapsed on Thursday, prompting the evacuation of an entire block. He said about 1,100 buildings in Limassol were potentially dangerous.
Inspections and evacuations
Tsouloftas said 370 building cases had been assigned to private civil engineers, who had prepared 296 reports. The EOA has reviewed technical reports for 157 buildings, all of which have been declared dangerous. Of those, 60 require immediate evacuation, while two have already been demolished.
Call for legislative changes
Tsouloftas described the available legal tools as “time consuming and ineffective”, citing a building in Yermagoyia with an evacuation order that has remained unexecuted since May.
He called for faster modernisation of legislation to address the country’s ageing buildings. He said changes were needed in the management of dangerous and jointly owned buildings, the operation of apartment-block management committees and regular technical inspections.
Information on buildings declared dangerous in Limassol is available through the WebGIS digital service on the EOA website.
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