Warsaw city council has decided that the threatened land development of the Pole Mokotowskie park will not now go ahead.

The decision was made Wednesday morning during a session of the Warsaw council, which decided to forbid any building of apartments, hotels and shops on the ‘fields of Makotow’.

Pole Mokotowskie will remain a large public space - the “green lungs of Warsaw” - and not a compound park filled with apartment complexes and commercial buildings.

The decision by the council was unanimous. The forty four members present at the meeting agreed to plans to preserve Pole Mokotowskie, one of Warsaw’s most loved parks, and considered the ban necessary in order to stop the developer’s temptations to cut down the grassy spaces.
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Recently, businessman Marek Czeredys attempted to build a fence around three hectars of the southern part of the park, while an Irish developer Global Partners attempted to build around the Wawelska and Zwirki i Wigury streets.

Leader of Warsaw council, Ewa Malinowska-Grupinska thanked all Warsaw citizens, who have defended the integrity of Pole Mokotowskie. (mk/pg)