15 out of 19 AHs of the Kharkiv Oblast have already received agricultural land plots of state ownership outside their settlements from the Main Directorate of the StateGeoCadastre in the Kharkiv Oblast,” said Diana Barynova, director of the Kharkiv Local Government Development Centre, established with the support of the U-LEAD with Europe Programme and MinRegion.

“The use of these lands will be an additional revenue source for hromadas and a possibility to develop their infrastructure. The AH council will independently dispose of this land, monitor its use,” notes Diana Barynova. “Earlier, land outside settlements were at the StateGeoCadastre’s disposal, and in fact, were managed with no account of hromada’s opinion.”

By December 2018, 12 AHs have already received state owned land in the communal ownership, another 3 – the Pisochynska, Starovirivska, Tsyrkunivska AHs – received land at the end of June.

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