The European development group VGP wants to build four large production halls on the outskirts of Rochlov in the north of Plzeň Region near the D5 motorway. They already have contracts for future contracts with private landowners. Half should be logistics and the other production, announced mayor of Rochlov Jiří Patera (For further development of the village). The project already has an EIA environmental impact assessment, but the locals do not want it.
The citizens recently signed a petition together with the inhabitants of neighboring Blatnice. However, the municipality there has an area for industrial production, which it approved in the zoning plan 15 years ago, when it wanted to create new jobs. “It always been there, and now we are being accused of building halls there,” Patera said. If the municipality removed the area from the zoning plan, it would have to pay compensation to the company.
“Already they have calculated it for some ten million crowns, which they put into it, plus some future lost profit. So we do not want to go into it, even if we do not like it,” said the mayor of the village, which has seven- to eight-million crowns without subsidies, annual budget.
The halls are to be built in the cadastre of the village, at exit 100, where there is a exit to Heřmanov Huť. “Along the stream, by the dirt road that ends at the train stop. They will be smaller than in neighboring Přehýšov, but the built-up area will be quite large,” said the mayor. According to Patera, the developer has agreed with the farmer from the area, who buys it advantageously from private owners and then offers it to the developers. VGP is now negotiating the removal of arable land from the agricultural land fund.
VGP, which has a ten-hectare industrial zone in Pilsen-Bručná in the region, has already founded the company VGP Rochlov. The municipality does not yet know what production will be there, nor whether the companies will use foreign workers. Patera connects the project with the planned reconstruction and electrification of the Nepomuk – Heřmanova Huť line, on which Rochlov is located. The section from Heřmanovy Huta to Blatnice is reconstructed, but without traction yet.
“We know that VGP will come here, we will not do anything with the zoning plan. If the higher places are checked, we will only be happy. We where promised a million crowns for a fire truck and another million for investments in the village, ie CZK 300,000 a year during three or four years, “Patera said. Rochlov completed a fire arsenal with a larger clubhouse for 80 people for CZK 6.5 million.
VGP, manager and owner of logistics and industrial real estate, was founded in the Czech Republic in 1998 as a family developer. It owns and operates assets in 12 European countries. It has 80 parks throughout Europe in its portfolio; There are 14 of them in the Czech Republic, which are completed and leased, under construction or in preparation.
Source: CTK
Photo: VGP Park – Gyor Beta
