A Prague City court will decide about a vast residential project the Prague based Swiss developer Sebastian Pawlowski plans to build in Benice outside Prague. The local municipality has attacked the change to the master plan that enables the developer to build 1,000 units on 30 ha of land, which is currently open fields. Pawlowski says he paid CZK 360m to buy the land.
Prague’s current deputy mayor for planning Tomáš Hudeček says that a railway corridor connecting Prague to České Budějovice and Brno is supposed to lead across the land and that building a housing project for three thousand inhabitants along it would make this impossible, or would lead to huge cost increases. The change to the master plan was initiated by Hudeček’s predecessor on the Prague city council, Martin Langmajer.
