A street on the plan but not on the ground: checking a Bulgarian building plot

A street drawn on a development plan is not necessarily an opened public road providing usable access. Land needed for it may not yet have been acquired or cleared, and surfacing and utilities may be absent. Verify any promise that the municipality will build it soon.

Separate the plan from its implementation

Obtain the operative detailed development plan and ownership information for the street corridor. Check acquisition or expropriation proceedings, final acts and actual implementation. Inclusion in a budget proposal does not guarantee access by a particular date.

A temporary road is a separate option

The Spatial Development Act provides for temporary roads to plots fronting only planned, unopened streets. These require their own agreement or administrative procedure and compensation arrangements; establishing the temporary road does not itself transfer ownership of the occupied land. A planned road does not permit you to remove a neighbour's fence yourself.

Check utilities independently. Temporary supply before street-plan implementation may carry an obligation to relocate installations later at the developer's expense. Assess a cheap plot's full access and infrastructure costs without assuming automatic building permission.