Prague rejects CPI highrise project in Ďáblice

The Prague Assembly rejected a highrise residential project CPI Reality was planning in Prague 8-Ďáblice. The Prague councilor for planning, Petra Kolínská, says that the project does not suit the urban concept of the Ďáblice neighborhood. Prague supports the local initiative and the Prague 8 municipality, which strongly criticized the developer’s plan to build several highrises in the location, arguing that the neighborhood is not able to absorb the new residential development. “The local infrastructure – transport system, kindergartens and schools, healthcare and further services – does not have sufficient capacity to support the planned development,” the director of Prague’s planning institute IPR, Ondrej Boháč, told Lidové noviny. The project, set to go up between Čumpelíkova, Frýdlantská, Tanvaldská and Střelničná streets, would include four buildings, three of which could be considered as highrises with 14 to 16 floors. The developer has downsized initial plans for a 18-story highrise along Střelničná street to 16 floors and says the project includes parking capacities, as well as services that the location lacks. The developer has submitted a study for the first phase, a building on Střelničná street, and hopes it will be able to start construction by the end of 2018, according to CPI spokesman Jan Burian.