Radňovice in Žďársko will build a community house with the help of a grant

Ondřej Novotný architect, Municipal House Radňovice

Radňovice - This autumn, Radňovice in the Žďár region began constructing a municipal house, which will include a municipal office, a library, three apartments on the upper floor, and a room for associations in the attic. The building will be constructed to a passive energy standard to ensure low heating costs, said Mayor Josef Dvořák to ČTK. The investment, which will cost around 18 million crowns including tax, has already secured a promised subsidy for the municipality.

Radňovice, with 320 inhabitants, is located between Nové Město na Moravě and Žďár nad Sázavou, on the border of the Žďárské vrchy Protected Landscape Area. "For a municipality of our size, this is not an easy investment, but we have been preparing for it for five years. We have saved up around 11 million," said the mayor. The municipality has an annual budget of about five million crowns. The office and library are currently located in a cultural center on the outskirts of Radňovice. The new municipal house, located near the school in the center of the village, is expected to be completed by the end of next year.

According to Dvořák, the municipality decided to construct a passive standard building to operate it as economically as possible. "And to also show that municipalities can do things the way they should be done today," he said. The municipal office will also generate some income by renting the new apartments. They could potentially be inhabited by retirees who leave the house to their children, or by young families, according to the mayor.

There is interest in housing in Radňovice, according to the mayor. Last year, the municipality sold four plots. Interested parties continue to come forward, but the municipal office does not have many plots available for utility networking, he stated.

Increased costs for constructing a thoroughly insulated municipal house with an energy-efficient air ventilation system are expected to be covered by a six-million-krona subsidy from the Operational Program for the Environment. The house will be heated by a condensing gas boiler and will also have a domestic wastewater treatment plant. In the future, the municipality plans to install solar panels on the roof.

The municipality intends to renovate the cultural house in the future. Its hall should then serve multiple purposes, including as a gym for the school.