The number of Planned Industrial Estates, which is rather limited in Greece, together with restrictive provisions issued from time to time on industries installed in the Attica basin and elsewhere, gave rise to phenomena of large... more
The number of Planned Industrial Estates, which is rather limited in Greece, together with restrictive provisions issued from time to time on industries installed in the Attica basin and elsewhere, gave rise to phenomena of large concentrations of single industrial units in specific areas outside the scope of such restrictive provisions, since they obviously gained the preference of businesses. These concentrations are usually called, Informal Industrial Developments. The infrastructure of industries in these areas is often incomplete and this, together with excessing of the carrying capacity of the areas can have serious environmental consequences. Informal Industrial Developments at Inofita, Viotia, is a salient example, where almost two hundred industrial businesses were collocated giving the impression of a Planned Industrial Estate. The paper analyses the phenomenon of Informal Industrial Developments in Greece and especially this in Inofita. The paper concludes that the existing institutional framework of the Law 3982/11 gives the opportunities to put the area in environmental and spatial order as well as to give to the established in the area companies, better economical conditions of operation.
