The cooperative apartment buildings in Přízřenice in Brno should not obstruct the local residents.

Brno – A new project of houses with 300 cooperative apartments, which Brno aims to build by around 2026 in the Brno-Přízřenice area, will be designed to integrate the new buildings into the existing development with maximum consideration for the current residents of the district. This was stated today at a meeting with journalists by Jiří Oliva, the deputy mayor for housing, and architect Petr Pelčák, whose studio won the competition for the project documentation.

"In many projects we are working on, we encounter the situation where everyone agrees that building new apartments is necessary, but no one wants those apartments to rise in their neighborhood. This applies to all cities, in Brno just as in Prague," noted architect Pelčák. He said he would try to accommodate longtime residents as much as possible.

The apartment buildings, which construction on municipal land in Přízřenice could start in 2024, are to be integrated into the current development as sensitively as possible, Oliva stated. "The closest to the planned construction are several family houses, which are set back from Moravanská Street by front gardens. We plan to preserve the avenue on Moravanská Street and shift the construction a few meters so that it is further from the road. For the existing residents of these family houses, this should not mean a deterioration in living comfort," Oliva said.

The specific appearance of the future buildings will be defined by the project; according to Oliva, rather lower houses should be built in close proximity to Moravanská Street. In the future, the city also wants to build another 500 apartments on neighboring municipal land. A school and a kindergarten are also planned, but those are scheduled for later phases.

The project, costing 18.69 million, is currently funded by the city of Brno. Once the city establishes a cooperative with two municipal companies and this cooperative takes out a loan from a bank for the construction of the apartments, the amount will return to the city budget. "Otherwise, it would be considered illegal public support," Oliva noted. According to initial estimates, the construction of 300 apartments is expected to cost about 1.25 billion crowns.

Next year, the city plans to announce another call for interest in cooperative housing, for which there have been 500 applicants since 2018. However, the city wants to build 1300 cooperative apartments in six different locations in Brno. The city council is expected to approve the conditions for the next wave of applicants for joining the cooperative by the end of the year.