site.btaSave Sofia Urges Government to Transfer Former Barracks Land to Sofia Municipality

Boris Bonev, the leader of Save Sofia, which is part of the opposition in the Sofia Municipal Council, has called on Prime Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov to stop the sale of unused state-owned land and instead transfer it to the Sofia Municipality to help protect green spaces in the capital.

A case in point is the Obelya 1 and Obelya 2 neighborhoods in Sofia, where around 3 ha of spaces between residential buildings have become private property, with new construction allowed in much of the area, while a 5-ha plot of former military barracks is still state-owned and listed for sale.

“If these state-owned properties are given to the municipality, they could be used to exchange the privately owned plots locked between residential buildings,” Bonev said. “This would preserve the green spaces and allow new construction on a single, planned site.”

Bonev also said that such a transfer would not be a loss for the State, but a way to support local development.