The construction of a residential complex with underground parking will begin in Lviv’s Pid Holoskom neighbourhood, while the developer will build a kindergarten that will be transferred to the city.
This was announced during a meeting of the executive committee of the Lviv City Council on 27 August.
The buildings are to be constructed by the limited liability company Linter-Plast. In return, the developer has to build a kindergarten for 120 children, which will later be transferred to communal ownership.
“We have received letters of guarantee on the fulfilment of these obligations, and these projects have also passed the city planning council,” said Roman Krushelnytskyi, head of the architecture department at Lviv City Council.
The decision was also discussed during meetings of the working group, which includes residents of the Pid Holoskom neighbourhood and city officials.
“The working group and I had several visits to the territory of the Pid Holoskom neighbourhood. Now we propose to consider a decision to deviate from the moratorium in order to give permission for the construction of the kindergarten and simultaneously for the construction of residential buildings,” said Natalia Alekseeva, head of the working group on the Pid Holoskom neighbourhood.
“We have received a letter of guarantee that this pre-school will be transferred to the municipal ownership of the city upon completion of construction. Accordingly, it will be free for the residents of Pid Holosko. It is also important that this developer undertakes to lower the nearby high-voltage power lines into the ground. And this area will be a high-quality green zone in the future, which is synchronised with the new zoning plan being developed for Pid Holosk,” said Lyubomyr Zubach, Deputy Mayor for Urban Development.
The developer’s representative, Oleksandr Syroyid, confirmed the intentions to build the housing and kindergarten.
“Indeed, we had several visits with the residents and the working group, we went through the whole area. There are letters of guarantee that we are building a pre-school for at least 120 children and transferring it to communal ownership. All this will be done in stages, according to a roadmap, in line with the construction of residential buildings,” said Oleksandr.
A local resident who took part in the previous discussions noted that if the developer keeps its promises, this decision is acceptable to them.
“The issue was discussed quite lively and for a long time among the residents, the working group, officials, and the developer. We came to a compromise decision that this institution should be a municipal one, that is, we received such a promise and ask that the city make every effort to monitor the process. That is, houses should be built and the pre-school should grow at the same time. We want the city to facilitate compliance with the guarantees, and if it does, we will consider the compromise to be successful and we can move forward with the developer and the city together,” said Tetiana Shevchyk, a resident of the Pid Holoskom neighbourhood.