A district for nine thousand residents will be built in Irkutsk

Irkutsk municipal unitary enterprise UKS will build a new district on the outskirts of Novo-Lenino. On a site with an area of 25 hectares, 59 residential block sections of different heights, as well as social facilities, will be built. It is planned that about 9 thousand people will live in the area. Experts predict that the commissioning of the declared volume of housing could provoke a transport collapse in the Leninsky district if the city administration does not take measures to reconstruct the street. Bauman and increasing the intensity of public transport traffic.

In the Novo-Lenino microdistrict, by the end of 2016, the Municipal Unitary Enterprise “Capital Construction Administration of the City of Irkutsk” (UCS) intends to implement a comprehensive project for the “Evolution” residential area, consisting of 59 houses of different heights. A total of 3,608 apartments will be built for 9 thousand people, said Yevgeny Savchenko, general director of the city UKS, at a press conference yesterday. The first stage of construction (27 houses) will be commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2015, the second (32 houses) - in the fourth quarter of 2016. “More than 30%, namely 1,299 apartments will be sold through government programs, in particular 618 apartments through the program for relocating citizens from dilapidated and dilapidated housing, 450 apartments through the “Affordable Housing for Young Families” program, 156 apartments will be built for children “orphans,” he noted. Among the social facilities planned for construction are two kindergartens with 220 places, as well as a school for 1,225 children per shift. Mr. Savchenko found it difficult to name the total volume of investments in construction. The city administration provided the company with a development site with an area of 25 hectares without holding a tender, explained the chairman of the committee on urban planning policy of the Irkutsk mayor’s office, Evgeny Kharitonov. Currently, the UKS pays only rent for the land. Evgeniy Savchenko also did not disclose the amount of payments.

Let us recall that earlier the governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Eroshchenko, repeatedly criticized the city authorities for providing land to a municipal enterprise free of charge, without a competitive basis. As a result, according to the governor, the budget did not receive funds for the sold plot, and the housing was sold at a commercial price. In the new residential microdistrict, the developer promises to provide a cost per square meter in the region of 43-44 thousand rubles, which also exceeds the average price of primary real estate in the Leninsky district (according to realty.irk.ru, in May it was 42 thousand rubles - „ Kommersant). Evgeniy Savchenko retorted: UKS actively participates in state programs, selling housing at a very low cost, and this compensates for the issue of land to them without bidding.

When assessing a project, experts predict problems with infrastructure. As Evgeny Savchenko explained, the issue of technological connection of houses to utility networks has already been resolved. However, according to Alexander Mikhailov, professor of the Department of Transport Logistics at the National Research Institute of State Technical University, there may be a problem with the transport component: with such a volume of housing commissioned, it is necessary to reconstruct the street. Bauman, expanding the roadway to at least four lanes. Evgeny Kharitonov noted that the reconstruction of the street. Bauman is included in the plans of the city administration, but could not specify the timing of this project. In addition, Alexander Mikhailov considers it necessary to address the issues of reorganizing public transport in the Leninsky district. “Nowadays, mostly small buses go to Novo-Lenino. They need to be replaced with high-capacity buses, and the number of transport units must be increased,” he noted.

Ekaterina Golovina

"Evolution" has reached the outskirts