Lex Norrmalm
When Lex Norrmalm from 1953 it was a Swedish Expropriation Act , which for the refurbishment of Norrmalm ( Norrmalmsregleringen the inner-city neighborhood) Nedre Norrmalm of Stockholm was tailor-made.
By declaring large contiguous surfaces of various owned parcel owners were, as a building ban - and Expropriationsszone it came to the slums and devaluation of the parcels concerned, grouped later, new, with large new buildings of financial and trading companies to a modernized infrastructure learned to appreciate again . According to the leading Swedish lawyer Jacob WF Sundberg, the law had a generally depressing and unsettling effect on the Swedish real estate market.
When the problem was brought before the European Court of Justice in Strasbourg by two of the landowners concerned , the Swedish government withdrew the Lex Norrmalm in 1979. The Court subsequently ruled in the Sporrong and Lönnroth cases v. Sweden on 23 September 1982 and 18 December 1984, respectively, in favor of the applicants. They received compensation of SEK 800,000 and 200,000 respectively , and they were reimbursed for court costs.
Individual evidence
- ^ Thomas Hall: Stockholm - The Making of a Metropolis . Routledge, 2009, ISBN 978-0-415-33999-5 , pp. 168 ff .