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ISSN 1334-0565

 

YEAR: XLV.

ZAGREB, 29 APRIL, 2008

NUMBER: 3.1.7.

 

 

OBLIGED TO NOTIFY DATA SOURCE

 

DEMOLISHED DWELLINGS, 2007

 

In 2007, the dwelling stock decreased by 705 dwellings. Reasons of excluding dwellings from the dwelling stock are the following: demolishing because of building of new constructions (88.6%), conversion into a non-residential area (5.4%), illegal construction (4.7%) and dilapidation and other causes (1.3%).

 

The average size of a useful floor area in these dwellings was 75.2 m2. Out of the total number of dwellings, 67.9% had two or three rooms.

 

By the level of equipment with installations within a dwelling, all of them had electricity, while 81.3% had water supply, sewage system, a toilet and a bathroom.

 

1.     DWELLINGS, BY CAUSE OF THEIR EXCLUSION FROM DWELLING STOCK, 2007

 

 

Total
decrease
in dwelling
stock1)

Dwellings by reason of demolishing

Conversion
into non-
residential
area etc.2)

 

 

Building of
new
constructions

Illegal
construction

Dilapidation
and other
causes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

Number

705

625

33

9

38

Useful floor area, m2

53 050

47 730

1 431

515

3 374

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In urban settlements

Number

522

486

6

8

22

korisna površina m2
Useful floor area, m2

40 069

37 550

256

472

1 791

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other settlements

Number

183

139

27

1

16

Useful floor area, m2

12 981

10 180

1 175

43

1 583

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes).

2)  Including merging of two or more dwellings into one

 

 

2.   Dwellings, BY aCCESSORY ROOMS AND BY INSTALLATIONS, 2007

 

Total
decrease
in dwelling
stock1)

Accessory  rooms

Installations

Bathroom

Toilet

Kitchen

Electricity

Water
supply
system

Sewage
system

Central
heating

Gas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total

Number

705

573

573

705

705

573

573

27

107

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In urban settlements

Number

522

463

463

522

522

463

463

26

106

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In other settlements

Number

183

110

110

183

183

110

110

1

1

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes).

 

 

3.   DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK FOR THE REASON OF DEMOLISHING AND OTHER, BY COUNTIES, 2007

 

Dwellings – total1)

Number of dwellings

Number

Useful floor
area, m2

1 room

2 rooms

3 rooms

4 rooms

5 or
more rooms

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Republic of Croatia

705

53 050

75

252

227

136

15

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

County of Zagreb

43

2 903

7

17

13

6

-

County of Krapina-Zagorje

6

483

2

3

-

1

-

County of Sisak-Moslavina

16

1 408

1

5

5

4

1

County of Karlovac

14

954

2

9

2

1

-

County of Varaždin

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

County of Koprivnica-Križevci

23

1 626

-

13

8

2

.

County of Bjelovar-Bilogora

18

1 360

-

8

8

2

-

County of Primorje-Gorski kotar

7

653

-

-

3

4

-

County of Lika-Senj

9

883

-

1

3

5

-

County of Virovitica-Podravina

28

2 193

2

7

16

3

-

County of Požega-Slavonia

25

2 370

1

3

8

13

-

County of Slavonski Brod-Posavina

33

2 630

4

7

13

9

-

County of Zadar

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

County of Osijek-Baranja

132

10 943

14

32

41

44

1

County of Šibenik-Knin

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

County of Vukovar-Sirmium

60

4 928

4

20

23

13

-

County of Split-Dalmatia

5

400

-

1

3

1

-

County of Istria

38

1 766

10

22

6

-

-

County of Dubrovnik-Neretva

4

201

-

4

-

-

-

County of Međimurje

10

912

-

2

4

4

-

City of Zagreb

234

16 437

28

98

71

24

13

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes).

 

4.   DWELLINGS EXCLUDED FROM DWELLING STOCK

 

Total
decrease
in dwelling
stock1)

Demolished dwellings by reason of demolishing

Conversion
into non-
residential
space etc.3)

Building of

new
constructions

Illegal
construction

War
damages2)

Dilapidation
and other
causes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2003.

Number

808

719

-

34

20

35

 

Useful floor area, m2

60 150

53 082

-

1 758

1 859

3 451

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2004.

Number

518

262

187

-

13

56

 

Useful floor area, m2

34 089

18 273

10 074

-

1 337

4 405

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005.

Number

561

415

70

1

34

41

 

Useful floor area, m2

42 576

31 784

4 897

93

2 750

3 052

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006.

Number

1 178

768

312

-

22

76

 

Useful floor area, m2

80 084

55 912

16 267

-

1 681

6 224

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2007.

Number

705

625

33

-

9

38

 

Useful floor area, m2

53 050

47 730

1 431

-

515

3 374

 

 

1)  The total number of dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock, regardless of the way of use (occupied and non-occupied dwellings for usual residence,
     dwellings for seasonal/holiday purposes).

2)  See Notes on Methodology

3)  Including merging of two or more dwellings into one

 

 

NOTES ON METHODOLOGY

 

Sources and methods of data collection

 

Data on construction presented in this publication are collected through the reporting method, by using the Annual Report on Demolished Building Containing Dwellings and on Conversion into Non-Residential Area (GRAĐ-71 form).

 

 

Coverage and comparability

 

The Annual Report on Demolished Building Containing Dwellings and on Conversion into Non-Residential Area is collected from state administration offices in counties and in the City of Zagreb authorised for construction works as well as from the Building Inspectorate of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, Physical Planning and Construction, on the basis of the following documents:

 

-   issued licences for demolishing of buildings (containing dwellings)

-   building licences for either conversion of existing residential areas in buildings into non-residential ones or for merging of two or     more dwellings into one, which also results in reducing of the existing dwelling stock by one or more dwellings.

 

The report is filled in only for an entirely demolished building containing one or more completed dwellings. Consequently, damaged buildings intended for repairing and buildings without any completed dwelling are not included.

 

Data on dwellings demolished in the war are covered in a reporting year when commissions for estimating war damages were able to visit particular areas and carry out estimation, but not in a year when demolishing actually occurred.

 

Data on dwellings excluded from the dwelling stock are harmonised with respective UN/ECE recommendations titled the Programme of Current Housing and Building Statistics for Countries in the UN/ECE Region (No. 43/1993, ISBN 92-1-116584-9) and UN/ECE/Eurostat’s Recommendations for the 2000 Census of Population and Housing in the ECE Region (No. 49/1998, ISBN 92-1-116685-3).

 

 

Definitions

 

Building is a permanent structure covered by roof and enclosed with external walls, which is constructed as an independent purposeful unit that serves as a protection from weather or other external conditions. It is intended for residing, performing of an economic activity or housing and keeping of animals, goods, equipment for various industrial and service activities etc.

 

Dwelling is a residential construction unit consisting of one or more rooms and auxiliary rooms (kitchen, pantry, bathroom, toilet) or without auxiliary rooms and with separate entrance directly from a passage, staircase, garden or street.

 

Useful floor area (m2) is the floor surface measured inside the dwelling walls.

 

Dwelling has an installation for water supply when at least one room in the dwelling has water pipes, no matter whether or not they are connected to the public water supply system or private facilities.

 

Dwelling has an installation for sewage when at least one room in the dwelling has waste pipe, leading outside the building, no matter whether or not they are connected to the public sewage disposal plant or private facility for waste water (septic tank, cesspool etc.) or waste water is emptied directly to the environment (an open ditch, a river, a pit, a sea).

 

Dwelling has a toilet when toilet facility is in a separate room or in a bathroom inside the dwelling.

 

Dwelling has a bathroom when bath or shower is in a separate room inside the dwelling and in which water supply and waste pipe are installed.

 

More detailed methodology notes on this inquiry are published in Methodologies No.17/1998 (ISBN 953-96602-9-7).

 

 

Abbreviations

 

EUROSTAT    Statistical Office of the European Communities

m2                     square metre

UN/ECE          United Nations/Economic Commission for Europe

 

 

Symbols

 

-  no occurrence