Official notices — City halls

Hrotano Czech, the investor behind the new Smíchov City quarter, is donating 120 million crowns to the city for transport infrastructure and a new primary school; Prague's city assembly approved accepting the gift in September. The school for 580 children on former railway land is expected to cost about 1.16 billion crowns and, according to the mayor of Prague 5, could open by 2030; the city took over its construction from the district in July. Beyond the gift, the investor will build two parks, a boulevard with shops and a public space by the Radlická kulturní sportovna, whose design will be decided by an architectural competition by the end of 2027.

The Office for the Protection of Competition upheld how Prague 1 awarded the renovation of Kampa park; the decision is final and the district can sign the contract. The Konsorcium park KAMPA won with a bid of 51,899,816 crowns excluding VAT, about 16.7 million less than the approved budget. The paths keep their current layout, and the project brings new trees and shrubs, Prague-style lanterns, a fence along the Čertovka, drinking fountains, misting points and a shaded playground. The park will not close as a whole; the district will publish the timetable once it is agreed with the contractor.

The city has given Prague 5 a grant of 60 million crowns for a building with a gym and four classrooms at the Pod Žvahovem primary school in Hlubočepy, and 35 million for a two-classroom pavilion at the Beníškové nursery school in Košíře. In Košíře the V Cibulkách primary school for about 330 children is already under construction for more than 450 million crowns excluding VAT, with the first pupils due in autumn 2027. For Barrandov, home to almost 30,000 people, the district presented a concept for a secondary school for 480 students in 16 classes with a sports hall open to the public; it has already acquired the site by Högerova, K Barrandovu and Štěpařská streets.

The public benefit company Živá paměť and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague have launched a competition for a memorial plaque to the Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust. It will be placed on the building at Bartolomějská 310/10 in Prague 1, which during the Second World War housed the criminal police headquarters that organised their transports to concentration and extermination camps. Artists up to 35 may enter, designs are due by 21 November 2026, and a six-member jury will award prizes to the best three. Prague 1 supported the project this year.

After the mayor of Prague 10 met the public transport company, Prague Water and Sewerage and the contractors building the tram line on Počernická Street, a district employee now walks the Malešice sites every day. Defects that can be fixed on the spot are to be put right within hours; complaints go to pocernicka@praha10.cz. All builders are to hand over public schedules with dates, and the district will launch a separate web page for them. Soil from further excavations will be sampled, and work will stop if new contaminants turn up.

On 10 September Prague 10 handed over its own municipal tomb at Vinohrady Cemetery. It will hold the remains of people whose funeral nobody arranged after their death; by law such a burial falls to the municipality where the person died, regardless of their registered address. Because the Královské Vinohrady University Hospital lies in the district, Prague 10 arranges more of these funerals than other districts and until now placed the urns in facilities run by others.

Prague 7 is installing tap aerators, shower flow regulators and lower-flush toilet fittings free of charge for tenants of its municipal flats. Forty-two households signed up for the offer in spring, and the district has fitted another 147 flats in sheltered housing and a homeless shelter. Five of the 18 buildings it fully manages are done, the rest follow this year and next; tenants with high water bills can ask to be treated first.

Responding to a petition to keep the Retro Masna Kosina butcher's shop in Kaprova Street, Prague 1 says it has neither served notice on the tenant nor started eviction proceedings. The lease runs until the end of 2028 and, if its conditions are met, continues indefinitely from 2029; in return the tenant committed to modernise the shop and keep minimum opening hours. According to the district the work so far falls short of that, and cooling units moved into the courtyard without consent were measured in 2024 at 63 dB against a night limit of 40 dB. The district refuses to pay for the renovation from public money, as the petition demands.

Prague has completed a new wing of the primary school for pupils with specific behavioural disorders at Zlíchov; capacity in the lower grades rises from 50 to 120. The wing is fully step-free — the existing lower-grade building was not — and adds workshops and a gym the school had never had. Next comes the refurbishment of the lower-grade building with specialist classrooms and counselling rooms, a link corridor between the buildings and a new outdoor playground. The school works with children with ADHD, autism and emotional difficulties; places of this kind are scarce in Prague.

That comes from this year's city survey of nearly eleven thousand pupils and students. Prague has been tracking children's mental health and risk behaviour for ten years, so it has something to compare against.