Tachov with 13,800 inhabitants is preparing the largest residential zone in the last 35 years. Dozens of plots for family houses will be built on four hectares of municipal land in the Mohyla-North locality. The city will spend almost CZK 50 million on the networks, said Mayor Petr Vrána (I Vote Tachov). Tachov needs apartments for young people to stay in the city. Foreigners are also looking for housing, and thanks to dozens of companies along the D5 motorway, their numbers are growing. Developers have projects for hundreds of flats in the pipeline, but they are not building them yet.
“We have a building study, so we can talk about up to 40 plots for family houses. We want to deal with it comprehensively and with civic amenities. We would like to sell the first plots in three years,” he said.
It is a large field above the Mohyla memorial site on the outskirts of the city on a 500-metre-high hill. The memorial was built as the final resting place for the victims of the death march that passed through Tachov during World War II.
“We don’t want the zone to be prepared by a developer because the prices at which they sell the land are quite unaffordable. We need to attract people and keep them here, that is, so they can buy the land. The developer’s price of CZK 3,000 per square metre is not motivating for them,” the Mayor said.
The city estimates the investment in the complete utilities of the zone at CZK 48 million and will spend CZK 1.2 million on the project this year. It is now finalizing the design of the zone’s traffic connection in connection with the route of the planned Tachov bypass with road engineers.
“We will probably not cover all 40,000 square metres at once, we will proceed in stages. We will prepare several plots of land, sell them and use them to finance the next stage,” Vrána said. By selling the parcels, the city would like to cover the cost of the networks, he said.
The fourth-largest city in the Pilsen region is not currently building a larger number of flats. “Several hundred are being prepared, but it is all in the phase of various development projects that have not yet started construction,” the mayor said.
In Tachov, near Stříbro and especially in Nová Nová Hová, thanks to the proximity of the D5 and the border with Germany, there are industrial zones and transhipment sites where thousands of foreigners work. Most of them live in Tachov, where there are now about 2,000 registered and twice as many undeclared. Many of them are also looking for housing. “Tachov has the highest ratio of foreigners to permanent residents, which brings many problems in coexistence. But at the same time, it is a great opportunity to help the city develop further,” said Councillor Matouš Horáček (I Vote Tachov). Integration is a lengthy process, he said, but it is already yielding results. The town is providing Czech language lessons, cooperating with employers and ministries, from which it is seeking support for the integration of foreigners.
Source: Tachov and CTK
