Prague residents can influence the future shape of the new Bubny-Zátory neighborhood

Prague residents can now comment on the proposed development of the Bubny-Zátory brownfield. In June, city representatives presented a proposal from the territorial study on a 110-hectare site. The study shows what the new neighborhood might look like. Now it has been published and is ready for a public comments.

Comments can be sent in printed or electronic form. The Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR) is also launching an information campaign. As with the presentation of the Metropolitan Plan last year, IPR is sending an information container to the area so people can learn what is planned for Bubny and how to comment.

The mobile container
will be at four locations: Nádraží Holešovice on August 26–29,
Strossmayerovo náměstí on September 2–5, Ortenovo náměstí on
September 9–12, and Vltavská on September 16–19.

“We look forward
to constructive and factual comments that will help us fine-tune the
planned new district from the citizens’ perspective. It should be
noted that the study is a deliberation on how the territory should
develop. It does not mean that the new district will look exactly
like the study. We expect that competitions will be announced for the
design of individual blocks,” Deputy Mayor Petr Hlaváček (United
Force for Prague) said on the City Hall website.

Prague 7 Mayor Jan Čižinský (Praha 7 sobě) said people should be able to influence how their city will develop. “Bubny will be home to 25,000 Praguers and a place to go to work or to spend their free time. That is why we want to know their opinion and look forward to all suggestions,” he said.

The neighborhood
will have some 11,000 flats, 29,000 work spaces and 5,000 spaces for
students in school.

The planning study
will be officially presented by the development team October 4 at a
public meeting in the Center of Architecture and Urban Planning
(CAMP).

IPR director Ondřej
Boháč said that for people to comment, it is essential that they
understand the proposal. “So we decided to choose the same method
as with the Metropolitan Plan, and go out with an information
container. I believe that citizens will appreciate this step and that
they will visit the container as they did last year,” he said.

The district should newly connect Letná and Holešovice and provide a home for up to 25,000 inhabitants. The authors of the territorial study are Pelčák a partner architekti and ThomasMüllerIvanReinmann architekten GmbH from Berlin.

After the comment period is over, approval of the proposal is expected in the winter. By 2021, zoning changes should be made and the site should start to be cleared of disused structures. Construction could begin within five years and should last until 2040.