Historic manor houses decay due to lack of government renovation funds

In northern and western Poland, historic old manor houses and other nobles' residences are decaying , due to the fact that the Agency for Agricultural Property of the State Treasury does not have enough money to renovate them, as well as the fact that they are difficult to sell. More than 2,000 such architectural monuments are located on lands which once belonged to State Agricultural Farms during the Communist era. At present, the Agency is responsible for administration of the real estate it has not managed to privatize and has already applied to strip 22 buildings of the monument classification. In exceptional cases, conservators of monuments issue orders for the Agency to overhaul such premises. Although they are entitled to carry out renovations and charge the Agency with the costs, this is not being done due to lack of funds. The only solution seems to lie in immediate privatization and sale of the historic buildings.(Rzeczpospolita, April 2, pp. A1, A3)