Larnaca DLGO gives Filanta block days to address dangerous conditions or face evacuation

Local LarnacapropertiesTop News Larnaca DLGO gives Filanta block days to address dangerous conditions or face evacuation Larnaca Dlgo Gives Filanta Block Days To Address Dangerous Conditions Or Face Evacuation Relevant News Larnaca DLGO gives Filanta block days to address dangerous conditions or face evacuation 24 June 2026 Mafia State probe: foreign investigator in the frame as Anastasiades hits back 24 June 2026 Shots fired at Paphos home in early morning attack 24 June 2026 Natasa Christoforou 24 June 2026 FacebookXWhatsAppEmailPrintViber The Larnaca District Local Government Organisation (DLGO) has given owners of the Filanta apartment block near the port a deadline of days to begin addressing its dangerous condition, warning that evacuation orders will follow if they fail to act, DLGO president Angelos Hadjicharalambous said. The Filanta block is the largest dangerous inhabited building on the DLGO’s list, comprising five blocks, 79 apartments and ten shops with more than 90 owners. Hundreds of people are estimated to live there, most of them foreign nationals, and some apartments have been illegally occupied. The DLGO began implementing its enforcement plan on Friday, starting with the Filanta as the most serious case. The building came to wider attention on May 27, when a foreign national died and two others were injured after jumping from balconies to avoid arrest during an immigration operation. Hadjicharalambous said DLGO officers had given owners three working days to take measures to address the dangerous condition of the building, with evacuation the next step if they did not comply. He said the deadline had technically passed but that some owners were making efforts, and that those who appointed an engineer and produced a remediation plan would be given additional time. If owners failed to comply, he said, the DLGO would proceed with evacuation and, if necessary, seek a court order. Beyond the structural dangers, Hadjicharalambous said DLGO officers had found severe sanitary problems and multiple violations during their inspections. He said some apartments were housing as many as ten people and that sanitary conditions were dire. Officers also found residents illegally drawing electricity from one another. “There are violations upon violations in this particular building,” Hadjicharalambous said. He said the problems extended well beyond the DLGO’s remit and that multiple agencies needed to be involved: police to establish who was residing in the building, Larnaca Municipality for nuisance and sanitary issues, the Electromechanical Service and the EAC for electrical matters, and the Fire Service because emergency exits had been blocked. In the coming days the DLGO will take similar action against other dangerous inhabited apartment blocks in Larnaca. According to information obtained by Phileleftheros, these include a second large block with 64 apartments and 12 shops. In total, the DLGO is preparing to send warnings to the owners of 30 dangerous inhabited buildings, 27 of which are apartment blocks. Read more: Larnaca has 1,050 dangerous buildings with 300 families living in collapse-risk blocks Subscribe to our Newsletter Latest News Mafia State probe: foreign investigator in the frame as Anastasiades hits back Shots fired at Paphos home in early morning attack Cyprus tax crackdown nets €44m from 513 high-risk debtors Phedon Phedonos enters plea today as rape trial set for September Echoes from the future: The missing pieces in Cyprus’s emerging tech ecosystem Temperatures to hit 38°C inland as Cyprus stays sunny on Wednesday Trump’s Board of Peace to meet in Cyprus next week, Times of Israel reports Follow en.philenews on Google News and be the first to know all the news about Cyprus and the world.