Hello!We have bought an apartment in a

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05/10/2016 - 15:53

Hello!We have bought an apartment in a 16th century tower in Umbria. It is a the top of a very high hill town and the building can be seen for miles around. There is a restaurant beneath us which has been asked to update it's ventilation system by the authorities. We were told by an associate of ours (not a member of the commune) that this would be a copper flue/pipe running up the side of our building, a couple of feet to the side our terrace. In terms of good neighbourlyness we had no objection to this. This morning we see (via a webcam) that the new flue is not copper at all but chrome which will looks really ugly againgst the lovely old stone of the building. Copper would be much more sympathetic and in keeping with the antiquity of the building. Does anyone know if we can appeal againgst this or whether we should have been consulted formally?Thank you Carlotta2

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This will be a thing for teh beni Culturali and the comune.   You should have done all of this before really - after the event it is difficult, if they have permissions.  However, you should go to thecomune and see what the permission is actually for.  Obviously copper would be much more expensive than steel so I suspect there is little you can do except appeal to the BC for good sense. 

http://www.umbria.beniculturali.it/bottom of the page, the contact coordinates of the Secretariat for Cultural Heritage of Umbria, to send a letter to explain the problem Ugo , by Lifeinitaly.it