Kasl: That Prague does not have a new spatial plan in 20 years is unexpected
On the ninth of the ninth of 1999, I managed to crack open the city’s spatial plan, which was blocked at the time, says former Prague mayor and architect Jan Kasl in the Realitní Club podcast, which you can listen to as early as Monday on newstream.cz and all podcast platforms. “It’s a magical date,” he adds. The new plan wasn’t perfect, he said, but it was better to have a plan than no plan. And according to his words, he believed that within ten years the city would create a new spatial plan. But that didn’t happen.
Kasl was the mayor of the capital from 1998 to 2002.
The new spatial plan of Prague is still not approved, thousands of comments are waiting to be processed. And the date of its acceptance is not in sight.
This is further enhanced by the fact that they are currently forming the new leadership of Prague. So far, no one knows what kind of coalition will be formed in the municipality. And how does he approach the spatial plan, a key document, according to which the development of the capital city should be governed. “I had no idea that even after twenty-two years we would not have a new spatial plan,” says Jan Kasl in the current Realitní Club podcast.
Hlaváček: When Prague builds its own apartments, it will affect real estate prices. But before long
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All of Western Europe has different forms of urban construction. “It would be a sin if Prague got rid of its own land, of which it does not have many, and did not use it as a basis for urban construction. At the same time, I realize that to create a high-quality urban environment, we need reasonable developers,” says urban planner Petr Hlaváček, known as the founding father of the Prague Development Company, who defended the post of STAN in the Prague council in the municipal elections.
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According to him, the problem is that the state is trying to link the creation of spatial plans of all more than six thousand Czech cities and municipalities into one template. And as he says, to the crayons. “After twenty-two years, Prague still follows my plan in quotation marks. It’s not ideal, but it’s at least something.”
According to the former mayor of the capital, the mistake is that the newly formed Metropolitan Plan is not actually metropolitan. It is dedicated only to Prague, not the entire metropolitan area, i.e. the connection of the capital city to all nearby areas where people who work in Prague live, commute, or build new houses. Here, according to Kasl, the emerging reserve plan. However, according to him, it is important, no matter what the plan looks like, that it finally comes into being.
Listen to the latest episode of the Realitní Club podcast on newstream.cz and all podcast platforms now on Monday, October 10.
Ondřej Boháč in the Realitní Club podcast: The Czechia is like a Hobbit in the middle of Europe. We live here at our own pace
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“The Czechia fell off the infrastructure map of Europe. From Berlin to Vienna you drive around, the route is a few kilometers longer, but a few hours shorter. You really have to ask yourself if I’m doing it right here,” says Ondřej Boháč, director of the Institute of Planning and Development of the Capital City of Prague, in the next episode of the Realitní Club podcast series.
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Apartments in the Czech Republic won’t just get cheaper. At least not the new ones
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Representatives of cities, developers, economists and lawyers attended the first breakfast of the Realitní Club, organized by the server newstream.cz. The main question was how much the frozen construction procedure is contributing to high real estate prices. “Until the construction procedure is unblocked, prices will certainly not drop. And I believe that building materials are really becoming cheaper,” explained foreigner Marcela Fialková from the Czech Republic of the development company UDI, which, even due to the lengthy construction process, is increasingly oriented towards the markets.
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