#dangerous buildings

Amid a labyrinth of red tape, evacuation decisions and law firm appointments, occupants of a building in Yermasoyia, Limassol declared dangerous are still living in the block despite an April 20 ...

The Limassol district EOA affirmed on Thursday that it will proceed with legal measures where building owners and management committees show indifference to safety obligations, following renewed inspections of structures ...

The scientific and technical chamber (Etek) announced on Wednesday that it is prepared to assist local government organisations (EOAs) in managing unsafe buildings and enhancing public safety. Etek said it ...

Immediate action is being taken on 15–20 high-risk buildings in Larnaca, local authorities said on Wednesday as they increase efforts to address unsafe properties that threaten public safety. A six-member team ...

A 27-year-old woman from Colombia has been identified as the second victim found in the rubble of a building that collapsed in Limassol’s Yermasoyia on April 11. Colombian press named ...

Over 1,400 buildings in Nicosia, of which 161 in the old town, are currently deemed dangerous and more are being added to the list as part of ongoing inspections by the Nicosia ...

Around 200 buildings were inspected by a technical team in Nicosia’s walled city on Monday amid an island-wide wider effort to assess structural safety regarding dangerous buildings. Crews from the ...

A total of 36 buildings in Limassol were declared as “dangerous” by the Limassol district organisation (EOA) on Monday as inspections of buildings were carried out in various parts of the ...

Hundreds of buildings in Lefkara are in a dilapidated state, including listed ones, but efforts to address the issue have not yielded results, mayor Sofoklis Sofokleous said on Monday. Sofokleous ...

A residential building in the Yermasoyia area of Limassol is scheduled to be evacuated due to security concerns, local media reported on Friday. According to Phileleftheros, the apartment complex in ...

A total of 268 buildings in Nicosia have been deemed unsafe, four of which require immediate evacuation, with costs amounting to more than €2 million, the local district organisation EOA said on ...

The interior ministry has moved to expediate public disclosure of unsafe structures on Wednesday, as authorities examined how to prevent further fatal tragedies after two people were killed when a ...

Authorities are examining the public publication of approximately 1,300 buildings classified as unsafe for use, as scrutiny of structural safety intensifies following a fatal collapse in Yermasoyia that killed two people. ...

Investigations into a block of flats which collapsed in Limassol’s Yermasoyia, killing two, are expected to be complete within the week, chief of Limassol CID Costas Michael said on ...

The interior ministry is expected to call a the technical chamber (Etek) and the civil engineers’ association to a meeting on Wednesday to determine immediate steps following the fatal collapse ...

The House interior committee continued its clause-by-clause discussion on Thursday on a bill proposed by Dipa MP Marinos Mousiouttas. The law aims to amend the 2025 roads and buildings regulation act ...

A new bill is being tabled to Parliament on Thursday, introducing tougher penalties against owners of dangerous buildings, following a series of balcony collapses in recent years that put residents ...

The interior ministry and the House interior committee are pushing forward with a series of legislative amendments regulating the management of hazardous buildings, it was announced on Wednesday, a day ...

Municipalities will retain responsibility over dangerous buildings until the end of March 2025, under a last-minute law passed by parliament on Thursday. The law passed is based on a legislative proposal ...

The matter of dangerous buildings and who is responsible for demolishing them has become a sore point between the new-fangled district self-governing organisations (EOA) and the municipalities, it emerged in ...

Dangerous buildings in Cyprus are “a thorn in the government’s side”, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on Thursday. Speaking to the House interior committee, he said his ministry is ...

MPs at the House interior committee decided on Wednesday to reconvene in an extraordinary session on Thursday, supposedly to give local authorities and the interior ministry a day to hash ...

Nicosia municipality said on Thursday it has identified seven buildings deemed unsafe for habitation, urging the owners to take immediate remedial steps. The buildings in question are inside what are ...

Civil engineers on Wednesday called on the state to subsidise the anti-seismic upgrading of buildings following the devastating earthquake in Turkey and Syria. The Association of Civil Engineers (Spolmik) also ...