Save home, phase two kicks off: handbook and single forms

Making fully operational the amnesties of the Save Home. Without many announcements, but with a technical work that is advancing in the executive's rooms, by the end of the year the government aims to set in motion phase two of decree 69/2024, with a manoeuvre resting on two pillars: a handbook, prepared by the Ministry of Infrastructure, and the updating of standard models for building (Scia, Cila, permesso di costruire, agibilità), on which a commission of experts is working, including representatives of the professions and business associations, which is collaborating with the Ministry of Public Administration and the Ministry of Infrastructure, with the aim of arriving by the end of the year at the Unified Conference between the government, regions and local authorities.

Salva casa, in these first months of application (its first version came into force on 30 May), has shown great potential but also several flaws. In fact, there are many interpretative doubts that are preventing local administrations from fully applying its amnesties. There is a lack of unambiguous guidance on many issues, and documents have been circulating for some time now analysing in detail the problems that are holding back the submission of applications.

One example, for all, is that of the amnesties for variations in progress made before 1977. This is, in the intentions, a quick procedure to make fully legitimate variations made on site for which, at the time of realisation, there was not even a way to submit a title to the municipality.

The operational difficulty is, however, represented by the fact that for this amnesty reference is made to another article of the Consolidated Building Act (36-bis) which regulates the payment of a penalty, to be calculated also on the basis of compliance with urban planning and building regulations. In essence, this simplified amnesty (theoretically very attractive to many citizens and linked to old situations, in which there is no longer any interest in removing the abuse) would be weighed down by the verification of compatibility with technical building standards, municipal regulations and urban planning rules. Is it necessary, therefore, to verify urban planning and building regularity? And how are penalties calculated?

It is precisely on these uncertainties, which have become many in the course of implementation in recent months, that the interpretative guidelines under study can act. The guidelines of the Ministry of Infrastructure are already being written, will go through a consultation phase, and then be published. Within them, sanctions will also be discussed. Many parties have complained about the excessive complexity of the decree on this point: therefore, the handbook will explain what figures are required for the different types of regularisation.