Týn n. Vltavou has started to demolish panel buildings in the Blanice area, where a new district will be created

Týn nad Vltavou - Týn nad Vltavou has begun demolishing the buildings of the former panel accommodation in the Blanice premises. In their place, a new district for 400 people will be created on an area of 3.2 hectares, featuring residential and terraced houses as well as public spaces. The development will be based on the winning proposal from the Neuhäsl Hunal studio, which emerged from an urban planning-architectural competition. The studio will prepare a territorial study based on the proposal, which will then guide the construction. The winners will present their proposal at a public discussion on April 2 at 5:00 PM in the MDK Sokolovna in Týn nad Vltavou. At the same time, an exhibition of all five competition proposals will take place, as announced today in a press release from the jury by Markéta Pražanová. The investment amount was not disclosed.

A total of 30 studios from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary entered the competition. Last September, the jury selected five candidates to develop competition proposals by January. The jury chose the proposal from architects David Neuhäusl, Matěj Hunal, Ivan Gogolák, and Lukáš Grass. "We expect that the city will sign a contract with the winners of the competition in the spring, who will subsequently finalize the competition proposal into the form of a territorial study. At the same time, the project for the basic technical infrastructure of the area will begin to be prepared, and negotiations will start with potential investors. One of the investors will also be the city itself. We would like to expand the city’s housing stock,” said mayor Karel Hladeček (ProTejn). Currently, Týn nad Vltavou has 7,850 inhabitants according to the Czech Statistical Office.

The jury appreciated that the development connects to the Hlinky housing estate, is permeable, and naturally links the locality with the city. "The pleasant public space full of greenery and rest areas, which will also support the movement of pedestrians and cyclists on their way from the Hlinky housing estate to the city, was one of the important criteria for assessing the competition proposals," stated Hladeček. Construction will occur in phases, which according to Hladeček will be important for finding investors. The specific shape of individual houses will gradually emerge based on investor requirements.

The Blanice area is located in the southern part of the Hlinky housing estate. The houses there were built for workers and employees of the Temelín Nuclear Power Plant at the turn of the 1980s and 1990s on a sloping land of 3.2 hectares. It is a five-minute walk from the historic square. The buildings have been hardly used for over 20 years and have fallen into disrepair. Until 2020, the area was owned by ČEZ, and in January 2021, it was acquired by the city. One panel house served as temporary shelter for Ukrainian refugees, while the others became targets for vandals and problematic individuals.