Gracanica Municipal Assembly members at today’s session made a decision that prohibits the connection of premises to water and electric networks, if there is no municipal construction permit issued, KIM Radio reported.

Municipal Assembly of Gracanica, on the proposal of the Mayor Srdjan Popovic, issued a decision banning the change of land use from an agricultural into the building land outside permitted the construction zone, reports KIM radio.

This point of the agenda was explained by the Director of the Department for Urban Planning, Planning and Environmental Protection in the municipality of Gracanica, Dejan Jovanovic.

Rivers Sitnica and Lab are flooding the village of Priluzje, with several houses being affected by water already, Serbian media reported over the weekend. As the water is progressing more households could be endangered and a state of emergency is declared in the village.

Security, selling of houses and properties, unemployment and bad infrastructure are the biggest problems in the village of Ugljare, nearby Kosovo Polje, inhabitants from the village said during the meeting with Gracanica mayor Srdjan Popovic, KIM Radio reports.