Construction permits in Georgia to require mandatory green spaces from 2024

Construction permits issued in Georgia starting next year will require mandatory plans for green spaces, in a move aimed to ensure recreational areas for new residential projects and combat “chaotic development”, Maia Bitadze, the Chair of the Georgian Parliament’s Environmental Protection Committee, said on Tuesday.

The changes will be introduced through amendments to the Code on Spatial Arrangement, which the lawmakers are scheduled to approve with their third reading at Tuesday’s plenary session.

The Georgian Public Broadcaster cited Bitadze as saying the practice of requiring green spaces in developer projects - used in Tbilisi since 2019 - showed it to be “beneficial not only for the city but also for developers”, and would be expanded to the rest of the country.

She also said municipalities across the country would compile lists of plants to be used in required green spaces for projects in different localities.