The court rejected the appeal of Dětí Země against the construction of a new train station in Brno

Brno – The Regional Court in Brno rejected the lawsuit from the Děti Země organization against the zoning decision for the construction of the Brno railway station in the relocated position at the site of today's lower station. The reason is a two-day delayed filing of the lawsuit, as stated by Děti Země in a press release on their website. The zoning decision is thus valid, and the Railway Infrastructure Administration can apply for a building permit. According to spokesperson Radka Pistoriusová, SŽDC can continue with the ongoing preparation for the modernization of the Brno hub, wrote ČTK.

Děti Země waited to file the lawsuit until the last possible moment, submitting it on February 27, though the deadline expired on February 25. The decision by the South Bohemian Region regarding the zoning decision was delivered on December 25, and not on the first working day after that date.

It is still unclear when construction will begin. In mid-June, Minister of Transport Vladimír Kremlík (ANO) refused to give any timeline during a press conference in Brno, stating only that the priority is the reconstruction of the Brno-Židenice station. "Confirmation of the zoning decision is a strong mandate for the continuation of project preparation," stated Pistoriusová.

She confirmed that the modernization of Židenice is a priority, as well as involving the new Přerov route and preparing an architectural competition for the new station and its surroundings. All these steps are to gradually lead to the preparation of documentation for a building permit. "Project preparation for the other parts of the railway hub will proceed subsequently and will be mutually coordinated," stated Pistoriusová.

The main station is to be built in a variant that does not account for the connection of the Chrlická route to the future north-south rail diameter, i.e., an underground railway that is to connect the north and south of Brno. The cost is estimated to be 43 billion crowns according to the feasibility study. Both the Brno and South Moravian councils requested the diameter. How the underground railway should look will now be addressed in the feasibility study by the Office of the Architect of the City of Brno, as decided by the council a week ago. It will also address whether it should be a railway, a conventional metro, or a tram.

Since the modern disputes over the location of the new station have been dragging on for over 15 years and the relocation of the station has been considered for decades, the station has long been deteriorating. This is now changing, and by the end of this year, it will have undergone multi-billion crown repairs, and in the summer, the first phase of a complete reconstruction of the station building has begun.