Piano casa in Gazzetta: here are the changes for renovations and bonuses

The decree-law (no. 66/2026) on the Meloni-authored housing plan has landed in the Official Gazette. But the final text, which has received the green light from the Ragioneria, brings some novelties compared to the one that went into the Council of Ministers: it has absorbed, in fact, the changes born after the frictions between ministers Salvini and Giuli, in the Council of Ministers on Thursday 30 April. The object of contention was the role of the superintendencies, which the first text on the table of the Council of Ministers had strongly downsized in the chapter on the management of public and social housing investments.

To the sound of 'I would raze the superintendencies to the ground', the deputy prime minister and leader of the Carroccio had attempted to defend the text from the wrath of the Minister of Culture, who had protested: 'We will not prosecute them! Result: everything was postponed to a post-Council technical meeting where officials from Palazzo Chigi together with those from MIT worked on the file, bringing home a compromise. Which sounds like this: no to the fast track for the commissioner in the authorisation procedures for the buildings to be redeveloped, yes to a simplified Services Conference, to which the decision is delegated, but leaving the administrations responsible for the protection of the cultural heritage the possibility of opposing the projects.

A change of pace that will not go unnoticed, since it is precisely the heavy bureaucratic machine that accompanies building authorisations that is holding back procedures. It is in particular Article 8 paragraph 1 that has been modified in the final text. On the one hand, the first part of the paragraph is confirmed: therefore, interventions of urban restructuring, building or demolition and reconstruction will always be allowed with Scia. Thus, no building permit will be needed.

However, the second part, relating precisely to the superintendencies, was omitted. Here it was foreseen that, instead of the request for landscape authorisation, it would be necessary to send a simple report to the superintendence. The latter 'in the event of ascertained lack of requirements, within thirty days of receiving the report, shall adopt the reasoned measures to prohibit the continuation of the activity and remove any harmful effects thereof'. In short, an accelerated procedure, created to limit the role of the superintendencies.

This fast track is cancelled. And the new paragraph 2, which has been rewritten from scratch, introduces a simplified services conference for 'urban and building renovation or demolition and reconstruction works', but without fast-track lanes and without exceptions to authorisation procedures. This conference, which must be closed within a maximum of forty days, will be attended by 'the administrations in charge of the protection of the environment, cultural heritage, landscape, and health', which will be able to oppose their reasoned dissent to the projects.