“The approval of the Metropolitan Plan will be a step that will change Prague. It will untie hands for its development and provide space for Prague's citizens to have everything they need for a high-quality life in a modern European city in the coming decades. From sufficient housing to quality public space and services to fast and convenient transport links,” said Prague’s Mayor Bohuslav Svoboda.

The Metropolitan Plan enables more intensive development of Prague. It protects the character of more than 700 Prague localities, natural areas inside and around the city, the historic centre and typical urban views. Major transport projects and investments are embedded in it. It opens up brownfield sites for the construction of new neighbourhoods, which could create up to 350,000 new apartments, including public amenities such as schools and hospitals.

“The new Metropolitan Plan is the foundation that will now make rapid and responsible permitting possible. It is Prague’s first fully digitised plan. All investment projects by the central government and the city are included in it. In addition, for private projects the plan adds a condition to enter into a planning agreement, if the developer’s land appreciates. The Metropolitan Plan will therefore enable rapid and massive construction, including a guarantee of sufficient public amenities,” said Petr Hlaváček, Deputy Mayor of Prague responsible for territorial and strategic development.

“The plan that lies before us is the best possible agreement on the future of Prague. We spent 12 years on it. The new Metropolitan Plan takes into account a myriad of conflicting interests and perspectives. I’m glad that we have found a consensus on what every Prague locality should look like, and I’m sincerely proud of both the result and the process by which the plan was created,” said Ondřej Boháč, Director of IPR Prague.

Expert Discussions and Public Debates

After the publication of the Metropolitan Plan, its author, i.e. the Prague City Hall Urban Planning Department, and the preparer, i.e. the Prague Institute of Planning and Development, will begin to present the entire proposal in more detail. There will be a whole number of accompanying events for the public and expert discussions, as well as two public debates, in November. Landowners and boroughs can submit comments online via the Pražan Portal from the moment the plan is displayed. People can comment on any parts of the plan that have changed since the last consultation.  

“We dealt with each comment we received individually and evaluated it in terms of weighing public interests, which were often conflicting. More than 60,000 requests were processed,” said Filip Foglar, director of the Urban Planning Department. “We are convinced that people will appreciate the fact that they do not have to write their comments out again when debating the plan, but will be able to use their original comments from 2022 on the Pražan Portal and continue to work with them, for example even marking them as affirmative and positively resolved,” Foglar added.

Commenting

Comments and objections are submitted online in digital form using the Pražan Portal and the Urban Planning Portal. Not only is it more convenient, but it also prevents people from making mistakes that could invalidate their suggestions. Using this method will help commenters meet all the requisites required by law, in the form of an intuitive guide. Submissions in this form will be sent in the statutory manner directly to Prague City Hall’s electronic filing room. A commenter will receive a confirmation of the digital action or a delivery note in their own data box.

Approval

The current Prague zoning plan was created in the 1990s and approved in 1999, but today no longer meets the city’s requirements. The draft Metropolitan Plan will be approved by the Prague City Assembly before the summer of 2026 and there is a consensus across the political spectrum that it should be adopted.