The Hradec Králové Region started construction of networks for the expansion of the Solnice-Kvasiny industrial zone

"The newly built infrastructure of the industrial zone will be used by companies that will create additional jobs here. There will also be an improvement in the transport situation, where the direct connection to the industrial zone will relieve the roads in the vicinity and modifications are also planned for the railway transport," said the governor Martin Červíček (ODS).

The association of three companies M-Silnice, Eurovia CS and Chládek a Tintěra Pardubice will build more than 80 construction objects of transport and technical infrastructure during the preparation of the area for the newly built southern part of the zone near the town of Solnice. In addition to investments in roads and railways, the project also includes water pipelines, sewage systems, watercourse relocations, gas and electricity lines or the construction of a dry polder. The entrance to the zone will be via the recently built roundabout on I/14 between Solnica and Rychnov nad Kněžnou.

"We started the preparation of the area for this industrial zone last year with the construction of a five-lane roundabout at a cost of CZK 31 million, which will be connected to the planned road leading to the zone in the future," said Pavel Bulíček (Pirates), Deputy Governor for Investment, Innovation and IT. The intersection is not part of the 670 million investment presented today.

The newly built trio of main access roads will have a total length of 2.7 kilometres and all roads, including dirt and other access roads to the land, will total 3.5 kilometres. The proposed roads of the industrial zone will be connected to Průmyslová Street (road III/32118) by a so-called liaison junction and to I/14 by a roundabout.

"The backbone road passes under the railway line in a cut about eight metres deep. A double-track bridge will be built on the line. The interconnection of the backbone roads is designed in the form of a junction near the level crossing and a roundabout. The latter is designed to ensure the serviceability of the technological background and the future railway station Lipovka," said Dan Lechmann, spokesman of the region. The project also includes the construction of a 10,500m dry polder under the zone.

According to the region's representatives, the construction of networks for the new southern part of the zone is part of a government resolution that will bring CZK 11 billion worth of investment to the Rychnov region. Building public infrastructure in the Kvasiny-Solnice zone, where about 12,500 people work, has had government subsidy support since 2015.

The Solnice-Kvasiny industrial zone covers an area of about 40 hectares. The southern part under construction has an area of 32 hectares, of which 22 hectares will be for future investors. "These 22 hectares will be prepared, for example, for manufacturing and light industry, or for research and innovation. The investor who will be interested in coming to this area must meet the conditions we have given by the subsidy. We are not negotiating with any investors, we have been waiting for the start of (the preparation of the area for the southern part of the zone)," Jana Jiráňová, head of the industrial zones department at the regional Centre for Investment, Development and Innovation (CIRI), told ČTK.

In addition to the construction of networks for the new southern part of the industrial zone, the state's 11-billion-dollar support for the Solnice-Kvasiny industrial zone also includes the 880-million-crown modernisation of the regional hospital in Rychnov nad Kněžnou, which began this spring, and the construction of road bypasses.

Source: ČTK