The needs of Studentski Grad (Student Town) are legion: improved safety and security, proper management and waste management as well as new streets, lighting, pavements, alleys, greenbelts, parks and gardens, and better dormitory conditions.

The complex is in dire need of major renovation, modernisation and a facelift, in order to really qualify as a university town, or university campus and retain some of its former glory. The newest plan pertaining to the revamping of Studentski Grad will be discussed in April 15-20, under the project for regulation of construction, in the presence of Sofia's chief architect, Petar Dikov.

The site was originally contemplated as a university campus when construction began in the second half of the 20th century. After the restitution, however, and the restoration of parcels of land to their original owners, scores of private constructions have spawned all over the campus, disturbing its harmony and straining its infrastructure as well as undermining its security.

The new law envisions that parcels of land will be designated for dormitory construction as PUDs (separated planned unit developments) which will be separated from the rest of the buildings, thus contributing to the "campus feel" of the area.

The construction of private property, deemed irrelevant to the student campus, will be forbidden by an order released from the Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov, enforced from April 6. The order was issued on March 6 but it is a hotly debated issue under article 180 of the administrative procedures codex. The court can even halt the order under article 166 of the aforementioned codex should it decide that the ban on private construction is illegal.

The ban itself does not apply to the construction of play schools or other infrastructural projects.

Documentation has been submitted pertaining to more than 30 properties in the campus currently pending demolition. The orders were issued after an investigation carried out in the area by the Sofia directorate of Construction Control, declaring them illegal. Dikov said in a statement to the press that those sites, including the notorious Amnesia Disco, have received two separate orders, one of them declaring that they must cease business activity forthwith, the other designating them for permanent removal.