The Trigema investment group has filed a lawsuit against the council of Prague 12, who also rejected the revised project for the planned Kamýk apartment buildings. Trigema wants to build them in Vosátková Street and according to the new design, the buildings should have nine and 15 floors. According to the management of Prague 12, this is still an oversized building that would worsen the traffic situation and quality of life in the area.
According to Trigema, the proposed houses are in accordance with the zoning plan and the arguments of the councilors are irrelevant. By the end of the year, Trigema wants to start demolishing the existing shopping center building, which now stands on the land where the developer wants to build, according to Trigema spokeswoman Petra Martínková. In addition to the town hall, the inhabitants of Kamýk also petitioned against the construction.
The Council of Prague 12 rejected the construction in a resolution in August. The Deputy Mayor of Prague 12 Eva Tylová (BEZPP / Pirates with the support of the Greens) then stated that the proposed building is oversized compared to the surrounding buildings, there is a risk of losing parking spaces for local residents and civic amenities will be missing at the proposed project. According to the Deputy Mayor of Prague 12 Petr Šula (TOP 09), the building is not in accordance with the stabilized area. At the end of September, the City Council of Prague 12 also confirmed the dissenting position of the town hall on the project called Two Towers, when it supported the citizens’ petition against the construction.
Trigema rejects the councilors’ arguments. “The City District of Prague 12 is still spreading false information about us, falsely accusing us of wrongdoing, and thus preventing us from submitting the project to the building authority for expert assessment. Therefore, on Sunday, October 3, we filed a lawsuit against the City District in Prague 12 addressed in fact to the councilors of Prague 12, who actively voted against the Kamýk Apartment House project,” Martínková said.
The filing of the lawsuit was preceded by a pre-litigation appeal, which Trigema sent to the management of Prague 12 on 17 September. Deputy Mayor Šula subsequently stated in a press release that the town hall will negotiate with the developer on further modifications to the project. According to Martinková, however, no one from the management of Prague 12 City Hall has contacted Trigem yet.
According to its spokesman, Trigema is now demanding the annulment of the council’s negative resolution on the Kamýk Apartment House, an apology and damages in the amount of interest service costs for the week that elapsed between the council’s first meeting after sending a pre-litigation summons and filing a lawsuit. Martínková added that if the entire project should be thwarted in the future, Trigema will also demand compensation for damages that would correspond to the total costs of the project. Trigema now estimates about CZK 160 million.
Deputy Mayor Tylová said that Prague 12 considers the lawsuit to be an interference with the city’s rights to self-government and the protection of the public interest of its own inhabitants. At the same time, it objected to the company’s claim that the town hall did not have the necessary information to comment on the new version of the plan, as Trigema mentioned in the pre-litigation summons.
“The city district officially received a description of the project from the authorities concerned, which Trigema asked for an opinion on the updated project. This description of the number of proposed floors, apartments and parking spaces and other parameters are sufficient to express the council’s opinion on,” said the deputy mayor.
Tylová also denied that the town hall would accuse Trigema of an infringement and that it prevented it from submitting the project for expert assessment to the construction department.
Source: CTK
