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The Odessa City Council, through the courts, is pursuing the demolition of three upper floors of the building erected next to the M1 hotel complex on Lanjeron Beach. The city hall claims that the developer unilaterally increased the building’s storey count, deviating from the approved project documentation.
According to media reports, during construction the developer added three floors that were not provided for in the approved project. The lawsuit states that such an addition violates urban planning documentation requirements and creates a dangerous precedent for development in the coastal zone. If the claim by the city is granted, the developer may be required to dismantle the illegally constructed floors at their own expense.
However, the current court process is already the city’s second attempt to address the violations.
Earlier, the Odessa City Council’s State Architectural and Construction Control Department (DABK), led by Oleksandr Avdiyev, conducted an on-site inspection. Inspectors found an excess of permissible floor area, after which they issued an order to suspend construction work and a separate order to rectify the detected violations.
It seemed that construction should have been halted after that. However, the developer appealed to the court and challenged the actions of DABK.
The court did not deem the additionally added floors legal, but established that the unplanned inspection itself was conducted with procedural violations. As a result, the court nullified the order for the inspection, the order to suspend construction work, and the order to rectify the violations. In addition, the Odessa City Council was ordered to reimburse the developer’s court-fee expenses.
Practically, due to procedural errors during document processing, the city lost the opportunity to enforce the previously issued orders and must now reiterate its position in court, again seeking the demolition of the three added floors.
Construction near the M1 hotel on Lanjeron has long been in the public spotlight. Several Odessa media links the controversial tower to businessman Volodymyr Halanternyk, known by the nickname “Lampochka” (Light Bulb). At the same time, there is no official confirmation of his involvement in the project.
Lanjeron is one of Odessa’s main tourist sites and holds a special status as a coastal area. Therefore, any construction in this zone receives heightened public and oversight attention. The case around the tower near M1 could become a precedent for other coastal development disputes, as the city seeks not only penalties but the demolition of already erected structures through the courts.
Currently, the court case is in an active phase. The parties have already submitted the necessary documents, and the court must set a date for a substantive hearing. If the city council’s claim is granted, the developer may be required to dismantle the three floors that, according to the city administration, were built in violation of the approved project. A final decision in the case could be issued in the coming weeks.
As a reminder, earlier StopCor reporters submitted an official inquiry to Hilton Corporate Communications representatives regarding the construction of the second phase of the hotel-office complex in central Kyiv, near Hilton Kyiv hotel.
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