Mykonos files getting buried

The state appears inconsistent with the commitments made to restore legality in Mykonos and as a result arbitrary constructions are continuing with impunity, according to a letter sent in May by the island's Mayor Christos Veronis to the Ministry of the Interior, describing the "deadlock" with the municipality's planning department.

Kathimerini has learned that the island's police have in the period from November 2023 to June 2024 carried out, either following complaints or ex officio, 197 inspections for urban planning irregularities. In 160 cases police notified the town planning department, which is responsible for the penalties, to stop works, impose fines etc.

However, the department conducted inspections on just four of these buildings.

The re-establishment of urban planning in Mykonos was decided in May 2023, in the wake of complaints about urban...