Smaller but comfortable apartments
With regard to hygiene-sanitary requirements for habitability, therefore, thanks to the innovations introduced by the Salva-Casa Decree it is possible to consider in accordance with housing rooms with height of 2.40 meters and no more than 2.70 as previously expected. As for the minimum size of the studios, we have passed to:
- 20 square meters from the 28 previously scheduled for a person;
- 28 square meters from the 38 expected previously for two people.
However, in the face of reduced sizes, habitability is allowed Only if the requirement of adaptability is simultaneously respected Pursuant to Ministerial Decree 236/1989 which establishes the technical requirements for the reduction of architectural barriers. Adaptability consists in the “Possibility to modify the space built at limited costs over time, in order to make it completely and easily accessible also by people with reduced or prevented motor or sensory capacity”.
This means, in essence, that the mini studio apartment to be in accordance with the standard must ensure from the origin of the housing solutions capable of allowing in perspective a use of the apartment also by those with mobility problems. In practice, accessibility intended as failure to presence architectural barriers is always required, even if this requirement can be deferred over time. In short, it is useless to design a raised bed space which is accessed through steps to optimize space, because otherwise the space for a lifting platform must also be provided.
Redevelopment as a basic requirement
And that’s not all. The compliance with at least one of the following two conditions:
- The place must be found within buildings subjected to building recovery and improvement interventions hygiene-sanitary characteristics;
or
- must be renovated on the basis of a project that provides for alternative solutions to guarantee, in relation to the number of occupants, suitable hygienic-sanitary conditions obtainable providing for a greater surface of the accommodation and habitable compartments, or the possibility of adequate natural ventilation favored by the size and type of windows, by the transversal air findings and the use of auxiliary natural ventilation means.
In conclusion, therefore, the project must predict possibly larger rooms Compared to the new minimum dimensions and in any case with large windows and greater ventilation.
Therefore not to the transformation of tout court of mini -apartment warehouses neither in the future nor in the face of a amnesty of interventions made in the past, not even taking advantage of the executive tolerances.
No amnesty for the past taking into account the new parameters
A concept this reaffirmed precisely in the FAQ reported in the guidelines. With regard to the tolerance regime in relation to the minimum measures regarding hygienicosanitary requirements, in fact, first of all the MIT recalls that in this case it cannot be referred to the tolerances parameterized to the surface because the norm has not included these parameters.
So the applicable threshold will always be that of 2%both in the event that the intervention was carried out before May 24, 2024, and in the event that it was carried out later, “Given that the rule did not refer to the types of discrepancies but to the deviations”for which where the discrepancy with respect to the project concerns the minimum measures identified by the provisions on hygienic-sanitary requirements, the tolerated deviation will always be that of 2%. Furthermore, a temporal distinction must be operated for which:
a) where the project is drawn up After July 28, 2024the new minimum measures can be taken and consequently the 2% threshold will be counted on the new parameters;
b) where, on the contrary, the project has been drawn up in the light of Previgent parametersthe discrepancy of what has been achieved must always be compared to the minimum measures of the time.
So No generalized amnesties and no mini apartments Renovated without a project that takes into account the accessibility requirements and provides for a redevelopment with high comfort standards.
