Supposedly illegal hut in the national park legal
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The procedure for a supposedly illegal hut in the Hohe Tauern National Park has been discontinued. An ÖVP municipal politician from the Gasteinertal had built a hut in the core zone without permission. The SPÖ had massively criticized this and referred to the strict provisions of the National Park Act.
The new building was particularly noticeable because it is significantly larger than the smaller, older hut next to it. Because particularly strict protection regulations apply in the core zone of the national park. The older hut has since been removed. Therefore, the current state is considered legal, no further steps are necessary, writes National Park Director Wolfgang Urban.
Cottage without electricity and water for water
The Social Democrats had criticized that there had been no approval for it before construction. But it is a hunting facility, namely a sleeping seat, according to the office of nature conservation minister Daniela Gutschi (ÖVP). Such a building without electricity and without water for hunting – even in the core zone of the national park – does not require a permit. That is why everything in this building was legal, according to the Office of the Nature Conservation Councillor.