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Articles / Developers are planning to double the housing stock in St. Petersburg and Leningrad region border areas
Developers announced housing projects on 100 million square meters in St. Petersburg and in the bordering areas of the Leningrad region. It's almost as much as city already has, the head of the Committee on Urban Development and Architecture ( CGA)Oleg Rybin reports today during parliamentary hearings on amendments to the General Plan of St. Petersburg.
"Housing stock of St. Petersburg is 120 million square meters for now, it is planned to have 60 million square meters more in the existing project plan. And 21 million square meters of housung is in the development. Subtotal 81 million is in addition to what is already there”, - said Oleg Rybin. – “and another 18 million square meters of housing on the Leningrad region border areas is planned. "
Particularly, it is planned to build 4.5 million "squares" in Murino , 1 million in Rzhevka, more than 750 thousand in Ianino, 2 million in Kudrovo , more than 500 thousand square meters in Novogorelovo, - it is said in his presentation.
But also, the head of the CGA put attention that "the so-called housing belt around the metropolis start to be some problem that will need to be carefully worked with."
