Construction supervision in Poznań orders the restoration of the legal status of the tenement house at ul. Piekary 13b

It is a hundred-year-old tenement house at ul. Piekary 13b in Poznań. Construction supervision became interested in renovating the building a few years ago, suspecting that the existing premises had been divided and created into a much larger number of apartments.

A document from 2011, found in the city archives, shows that the tenement house originally had 22, not 56 apartments. It was this document that the inspectors presented as the key document in the repeated proceedings.

A big problem for buyers

The smallest of the 56 units is less than 10 square meters. Almost all micro-studio apartments - tempting with a low price - have already found buyers, who may now have to accept the construction supervision order.

We found out that works were being carried out which, first of all, consisted in reconstruction, but this reconstruction also resulted in the construction of partition walls. Partition walls appeared to divide larger apartments. In November, I issued a decision that obliges the owner of the building to bring the building into compliance with the provisions of the construction law - Paweł Łukaszewski, head of Poznań's construction supervision, told RMF FM journalist Beniamin Kubiak-Pyłat.

The developer announces the cancellation

The developer does not agree with this decision, emphasizing that he acted in good faith.