Kent Law School academic Dr Thanos Zartaloudis has responded to a recent Bill for the Administration, Expropriation and Deformation of the Greek Coast Line with an extensive critical analysis.
The response, entitled ‘A not so sudden death: In the place of law, a description… for the management, disposal and alteration of the Greek foreshore and coastline land’, has been written in collaboration with Athina Papanagiotou from the University of Thrace Law School in Greece and is available to read on ChronosMag.eu, an online magazine in Greece (a version is also available to read in Greek.)
Dr Zartaloudis says: ‘Key points raised against the provisions of this Bill that plans to radically reform, if not annul, the principle of coast line protection within the Constitutional framework regarding commons and public land, include: (a) that the proposed over-regulation of the use of the commons is unconstitutional (contrary to Article 24 of the Greek Constitution); and (b) the deformation of the coast line through vertical, rather than horizontal, divisions of coast line land threatens not only the environmental protection of the land in question and adjacent natural resorts, but also the traditional legal definition of common land as such.
Last year, Dr Zartaloudis was involved in an experimental coastal landscape project that generated an innovative design for outdoor self-sustainable beach accommodation in Greece.
More information about Dr Zartaloudis’s research and publications can be found on his staff profile page and on Twitter.