"It was a fight for the future." A St. Petersburg court approved development in the Shuvalovsky Forest.
Forest in Primorsky district In St. Petersburg, members of the Legislative Assembly decided to protect the land from development and rezoned it as a recreational zone (P2). The court overturned the recreational status following a lawsuit filed by the developer. сообщили in the press service of the United Courts of St. Petersburg.
In 2023, changes were made to the city's General Plan, which secured Shuvalovsky Forest is being protected from high-rise development. The plaintiff (the developer Vector, which owns a plot of land in Shuvalovsky Forest) demanded that the provisions of the St. Petersburg General Plan law prohibiting construction in Shuvalovsky Forest be overturned. He lost the initial court cases, but the Third Cassation Court remanded the case for reconsideration. This time, the city court sided with the developer.
Local residents fought for the preservation of the Shuvalovsky forest for a long time.
"When we began our fight, it wasn't just a desire to 'save a tree.' It was a fight for the future: for clean air, for healthy water, for the living nature that is so important to us and our children. We became a voice for something that can't speak, but which is of great importance to us all." Wrote They are in their group.
Residents of St. Petersburg are outraged: “What’s going on… The judge went against the governor, the adopted laws, and United Russia?”
Activists urged neighbors not to despair and to continue to seek legal ways to preserve the forest.
Now the Seven Sons Development Group, which includes Vector, submitted several bankruptcy claims, and the owner Alexey Ryzhkov is a defendant in a case of violations in shared construction. He is under arrest.
Photo: Shuvalovsky Residential Complex, Yandex Maps
