Save Milan, the agreement arrives: now the text to be voted by the House

The authentic interpretation is confirmed. While the exceptions to the ban on the assignment of building credits are limited, in order to safeguard the public finance. These are the two pillars of the agreement found yesterday on the Save Milan and transferred in the reformulation of an amendment presented in the afternoon in the Environment Committee of the Chamber of Deputies by the rapporteur of the bill, Tommaso Foti (Fratelli d'Italia) and then voted in the evening (in favour, in addition to the majority, Pd and Azione). It is expected to be debated in the House today.

The compromise comes after a week of postponements. To put an end to the doubts about the legal framework of urban regeneration operations, Foti's proposal provides for an authentic interpretation of the law, aligning past and future under the same regime. This arrangement has met with doubts from the Ministry of the Economy, linked to a possible reduction in urbanisation charges in favour of municipalities. The whole of last week, then, was spent trying to arrive at a sustainable arrangement. An arrangement that, in the end, was found yesterday, when the government's positive opinion arrived.

The final text keeps the part on authentic interpretation almost unchanged. And it explains that 'the prior approval of a detailed plan or of an agreed subdivision is not mandatory in cases of construction of new buildings on individual plots located in built and urbanised areas, of replacement, after demolition, of existing buildings in built and urbanised areas, and of interventions on existing buildings in built and urbanised areas'.

The novelty, which is minimal, is the reference to demolition. The substance is that the expeditious procedure, adopted by the Municipality of Milan, is armoured, both for the past and the future. In addition, paragraph three explains that 'interventions of building renovation' also include those that 'present a shape, elevations, floor area and planivolumetric, functional and typological characteristics, even integrally different from the original ones'.

The most substantial change concerns the assignment of receivables. Here it must be remembered that the decree Blocking assignments had provided for a waiver of the stop to the assignment of credit and invoice discount for certain hypotheses. These include interventions that are part of recovery plans with detailed contents already approved by the municipalities as at 17 February 2023.