The Tallinn city government has launched a detailed plan to install a park and build a series of modern buildings at the corner of Hobujaama and Ahtri streets in the part of the city centre that is near its port.
There are 1,89 hectares of land which are mostly being used as a car park and a lot for urban transportation. The detailed plan involves a building permit of the country of commercial or residential buildings that will be up to 11 floors in height, as well as plans to establish a new city park and to set out a series of conditions on land use. There is a shortage of green areas in central Tallinn, so the plan is to ensure as much new greenery as possible in the area, including a new park in its centre. The owners of properties within the planned area can implement the new plan independently and, if necessary, in stages.
Deputy Mayor Madle Lippus is in charge of urban planning in the capital city, and she says that the area where the new buildings are to be built has recently experienced many good and important urban planning changes.
“For instance, the first ambitious attempt in newly re-independent Estonia was to create a complete and architecturally important urban space in the form of the Rotermanni Quarter,” Lippus says. “Much of the change has been consumed on buildings and street space, but now it is time to plan parks for Tallinn, and we can be pleased that the area of the park in the planning solution is several times larger than the stone square at Rotermanni Quarter.”
The city and OÜ PalmGrupp did not reach agreement on the implementation of the previous detailed plan for the area, and that was nearly 15 years ago. Meanwhile, urban planning needs have been changed. A tram leading to the port has been installed on Hobujaama Street, and there has been an increasing need for green areas. The new plan provides for a landscape architecture competition to find the best solution for the park, along with an architecture competition to identify the best solution for the buildings that will be on the rest of the land.
Source: BNS
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