For the future of the Staudenhof area, there is now a new point of debate in local politics: the Greens, together with the SPD parliamentary group, requested in the city council that the originally planned underground car park under the new building for the GDR block of flats be dispensed with. The two factions have now announced this in a joint statement.
The Greens had already decided on this idea at a general meeting – also as a compromise offer for a basis in which many party members plead for Staudenhof to be preserved. This is intended to strengthen the sustainability of the large-scale project – also because well-known climate scientists are now opposed to the Staudenhof demolition. By doing without the underground car park, sealing on site could be reduced, said Saskia Hüneke, leader of the Greens. The connection to local public transport is excellent, it said. She was also convinced that other specifications such as the hybrid wood construction method for the new building are compatible with the goals of social housing construction on site.
The SPD parliamentary group also supports the concern as a contribution to the construction transition for more climate protection, it said. The Social.Lefts, as partners in the red-green-red town hall cooperation, who are against the demolition of the building, are skeptical. Group leader Stefan Wollenberg said when asked by PNN that measures for “subsequent greenwashing” of the climate-damaging demolition were not involved. “Especially since the economic viability of the new building concept and thus the long-term security of the social housing stock at the location is increasingly being called into question,” says Wollenberg.
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