RESIDENTIAL COMPLEXES NEAR KYIV WILL BECOME A PART OF THE CAPITAL AGGLOMERATION: A NEW GENERAL PLAN OF THE CAPITAL

Recently, the city hall presented an updated master plan for the development of Kyiv, designed for the next twenty years. The document provides many interesting details, but we will focus on those that relate to the suburbs.

If you live in an apartment building or a house near Kyiv, be prepared that in 2040 your home will not be located in the suburbs, but will become a part of a new concept - "Kyiv agglomeration". In addition to Kyiv, it will include Boryspil, Boyarka, Bucha, Brovary, Vasylkiv, Vyshhorod, Irpin, and Obukhiv. The population is projected to be more than five million. The central part of the agglomeration will consist of a "core", beyond which the Great Ring Road will be located. It is planned that the city center can be reached from any point of the "core" in a maximum of forty minutes. There is an even bigger ring road in future plans, but it won’t be a city road, but a regional one.

The prospect of closure is hanging over Zhulyany. It’s true, that the city plans for the airport are not yet clear, but there is a possibility. A similar option is associated with the project of a new capital airport near the village of Roslavychiv (Vasylkivsky district of Kyiv region).

Due to population growth, it is planned to accelerate the pace of construction of residential complexes in the capital and near Kyiv. Currently, an average of 15,000 apartments are built each year. They want to bring this figure to at least 17,000 apartments or 29 sq.m. per person in twenty years. Ideally - a separate apartment for each family.

As a result, officials have voted to increase the city's area by almost 3,000 hectares at the expense of Kyiv region land, giving up 55.4 hectares in return. The lands of the Hnidyn Village Council (Boryspil district), the northern part of Trukhaniv Island to the confluence of the Desna with the Dnieper (Brovarsky District) and the Big Island (Vyshhorod) will become a part of the capital.

The prospect of Kyiv's development clearly hints that in a few years (maximum - decades) we will invest a completely different meaning in the concept of "search for housing near Kyiv" than today. And the current suburbs will become a full-fledged part of the capital. The wait, of course, is long, but not as long as waiting for the subway train to Troieshchyna (joke), which, incidentally, also got into the new master plan of the city.