Changes to the territorial plan for the Nové Lido location have been given the green light

Members of the Bratislava City Council ratified Amendments to Territorial Plan No. 10 by 31 votes. The changes are based on the urban study of the Nové Lido location, which for 20 years now has been designated for construction and will expand the centre of Bratislava to the right bank of the Danube.

Even had the councillors not approved any changes to the territorial plan today, developers would be able to start construction in this area, which covers an area of 718,000 square metres of ground space based on the current territorial plan. The approved changes only modify the urban planning of the zone and increase the number of metres of gross floor space, since the urban study from 2016 proposed a more city-forming, predominantly block-based development for this district.

Nové Lido will provide a mixed area with housing, civic amenities, high-quality public spaces with plenty of greenery and good transport connections to Petržalka, the Staré Mesto (Old Town) and Ružinov. It also creates the prerequisites for the creation of a comprehensive waterfront zone with areas for sports and recreation, a city beach and a water area for boating activities and small sporting vessels. By cancelling the drainage channel from the changes and additions, the floodplain forest between the dam and the Danube will also be preserved in the area, where the only interventions planned are those needed to make it passable and safe while leaving the maximum possible number of current trees.

The developers have contractually committed to investing 75 million euros into public spaces in the area and to deliver at least 97 rental flats worth approximately 25 million euros to the capital city. Their financial contribution will fund a waterfront park, a promenade, and a pedestrian bridge over the Danube between Námestie M.R. Štefánika and the central square in Nové Lido. They will also provide funding for the acquisition of ownership rights to the land for a primary school, which will be built by the city district from the development fee. A central park and a bridge between Nové Lido and Petržalka over Einsteinova ulica will also be created from this fee of 26.5 million euros.

The investments raised by developers will amount to another 95 million euros. Aside from the ground communications directly into the area, connections will also be made to existing communications in Petržalka in the form of roundabouts, sidewalks and cycling paths with links to the already existing network. A part of the raised investments be an approximately 600-metre-long boulevard, which will be prepared technically for the potential building of a tram to the area in the future.