Eddy about the planned campsite law – salzburg.ORF.at
environment
Neighbors and the nature conservation association are mobilizing against the campsite law planned by the state. This should enable the setting up of mobile homes on lake shores in the future. Critics fear that this will open the floodgates to illegal second homes.
Mobile homes are permanently installed, house-like living containers that remain on the campsite all year round. Resident Silvester Leitner from Abersee (Flachgau) puts it in a nutshell: Grassland and shore areas on lakes would become commercial and brokerage goods. Years ago, a real estate company offered land on Lake Wolfgang for sale. Apparently successful. The company now has 13 shareholders.
Leitner fears new chalet villages
Leitner assumes that the new law would give the lake communities even more second homes, while the owners can set up mobile homes forever and then sell them on: “They should be allowed to be set up on 30 percent of the pitches. If you know that the space for a mobile home is a third larger, then it turns out that 40 percent of the campsite is occupied by it. In addition, with the new law there is a great danger that new chalet villages will emerge and second homes in mobile homes or living containers. And probably not only in Pinzgau and Pongau, but also in Flachgau.”
Herbst speaks of shantytowns
Winfried Herbst, Chairman of the Nature Conservation Union in Salzburg, compares the smelting of the shore areas on Lake Wolfgang with shantytowns. He is waiting for a clear commitment from nature conservation officers in the country against the planned amendment to the law. According to Herbst, the protection of the landscape and lakes is probably the most important part of nature conservation.