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The Kyiv District Administrative Court 7 October 2026 year dismissed the claim by the State Architectural and Construction Inspection of Ukraine (SAUP) to annul the urban planning conditions and restrictions for development of the plot on General Shapoval Street, 1–3 in Kyiv, where the Park Life residential complex is planned near Solomianskyi Park. The project is linked to the companies Smart-Development and Miskbudalyans and the developer brand RIEL. At the same time, other legal disputes over the land, the construction permit, and urban planning documentation remain ongoing.
SAUP’s claim concerned the urban planning conditions and restrictions that the Department of Urban Development and Architecture of the Kyiv City State Administration issued to Smart-Development LLC on 24 September 2019 year. That document defined the design baseline parameters for a hotel, office, and multifunctional complex. In 2021 year the State Architectural and Construction Inspectorate issued a construction permit to Smart-Development and co-client Miskbudalyans, media report. In March 2024 year SAUP carried out an unscheduled inspection of the issuance of the urban planning conditions and restrictions. The inspection cited uncertainty in the wording “multifunctional use,” inconsistency of some land parcels with the intended use, partial location of the territory within public green plantings, and the absence in the documents of any mention of the slope-unstable nature of the land. On 15 March 2024 year the inspection suspended the urban planning conditions, and in May it filed a lawsuit. According to SAUP’s findings, two plots of 0,08 ha and 0,186 ha respectively, under the detailed plan of the territory, are situated within streets and roads where construction of hotels, offices, or multifunctional buildings is not provided. Another plot of 1,19 ha partially belongs to the territory of public green plantings. The inspection also noted that the urban planning documentation does not provide for residential development on this territory. A separate remark concerned a landslide that occurred in October 2023 year during work on the slope. According to the materials cited in the inspection, the volume of the landslide was about 1 thousand cubic meters. SAUP linked the event to cutting into the slope and violation of anti-landslide regime. At the time, the Kyiv City State Administration suggested the cause could have been excavation works for construction on General Shapoval Street, 1–3. The landslide damaged one of the pedestrian alleys of Solomianskyi Park. The court dismissed SAUP’s claim, in particular in light of the conclusions of the forensic construction-technical examination and the land management study. According to the conclusions cited in the decision, the proposed development intentions complied with local-level urban planning documentation. Smart-Development also referred to prior court decisions by which the company had challenged the suspension of the urban planning conditions. The dismissal of SAUP’s claim does not mean the end of all court processes around Park Life. The land plots on Mekhanizatoriv and General Shapoval streets were transferred to Smart-Development for lease by Kyiv City Council decisions in September and October 2018 year. The four plots had various designated purposes, including for a multifunctional complex, hotel, offices, retail premises, transport infrastructure, and servicing an automotive enterprise. The total area was about 1,5 ha. Subsequently the company received urban planning conditions for designing hotel, office, and multifunctional facilities.
In September 2021 year a construction permit was issued. The general contractor listed in the documents was Sigma-Building LLC. The permit covered an object with a total area of 98,3 thousand sq. m, including an aparthotel of 18,2 thousand sq. m. According to the LUN portal, the Park Life project envisages three buildings of 16 and 22 floors, 741 apartments and parking for 486 parking spaces. Initially the project was presented under the name CitiZen, later it was renamed Park Life and presented under the RIEL brand. Local residents and the public organization Save Solomianskyi Park opposed the development. Activists claimed the residential construction did not match the land’s functional designation, posed risks to the green zone, and the district’s infrastructure was insufficient. After work began, residents also raised questions about possible relocation of power cables and tree cutting near the park. In December 2022 year the public organization filed a lawsuit to annul the construction permit. On 6 June 2024 year the Sixth Administrative Court of Appeal suspended the contested permit as a measure to secure the claim. Smart-Development sought to overturn that decision in cassation but was unsuccessful. The substantive lawsuit on the legality of the permit, according to available information, had not been finally resolved. Another dispute concerns the detailed plan of the territory. In July 2025 year the Kyiv District Administrative Court rejected the demands of Save Solomianskyi Park to annul it in part regarding the plots on General Shapoval Street. At the time of preparing this material an appeal was ongoing. The public organization argued that the documentation does not comply with provisions on preserving the green zone and arranging pedestrian links with the park. Separately, a dispute continues over the lease of the largest plot of 1,19 ha. In July 2024 year the Commercial Court of Kyiv granted the claim of the public organization seeking to cancel the Kyiv City Council decision to lease the land and to declare the contract invalid. Subsequently the appellate court overturned that decision, and the cassation instance returned the case for re-examination. On 19 June 2026 year the Commercial Cassation Court again sent the case to the appellate instance. According to YouControl, Smart-Development LLC was registered in 2011 year. Among its founders are Vladyslava Seliuk, Nikita Seliuk, Alexander Seliuk, Denis Seliuk and Oleksandr Omelchenko. The latter is the son of former Kyiv mayor Oleksandr Omelchenko. The company’s director is listed as Tetyana Kravchenko. Miskbudalyans LLC, the project’s second client, was registered in 2010 year. Among its owners in the provided data are Mykola Terekh and Andrii Chykhun. The publication also describes possible corporate links of the company with the RIEL group through former co-owner Yurii Bilohan. These data indicate corporate connections but do not by themselves establish violations within the Park Life project. Thus, the decision of 7 October 2026 year became another stage in the court history of the development near Solomianskyi Park. Despite the dismissal of SAUP’s claim regarding the urban planning conditions, the legal status of the land plot, the construction permit, and challenges to the urban planning documentation remain the subject of separate court proceedings.
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