Prague City Council has tasked the Prague Municipal Planning and Development Institute (IPR) with drawing up two documents over the next six months regarding new housing construction. One of the documents will list plots of land owned solely by the City of Prague that are suitable for new housing construction. The other document will provide an overview of selected brownfields to identify those that are fully or partially usable for construction in the coming years.

The key selection criteria will include ownership and permitted utilisation under the applicable zoning plan. These are the same criteria as those applied when the IPR was asked to identify suitable plots of land for city-sponsored housing construction with a social aspect in the previous election term.

“In the first stage, we will be looking for plots of land owned solely by the City of Prague, including those managed by municipal districts, that are fit for housing construction. In the second stage, by the end of June this year, the selected plots of land will be further assessed from the urban development perspective and their expected construction capacity. The result should be a significantly more extensive list of plots of land for housing construction than in the previous analysis,” says Adam Zábranský, City Councillor responsible for municipal housing assets.

The initiative to identify land for housing delivers on Prague’s Strategic Plan (rev. 2016) where housing availability support is defined as one of the intervention areas.

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