A new experiment has been launched in the Sergeli district of Tashkent, where land plots are put up for auction with a ready-made package including construction permits, architectural-planning assignments, and project documentation. President Shavkat Mirziyoyev announced this at a meeting on July 4.
The first such auction took place in the Yangi Bunyodobod neighborhood. A 0.7-hectare plot intended for residential construction was sold under the new approach. With a starting price of 14 billion soums, the land was sold for 40 billion soums.
According to the meeting, the main advantage of the new procedure is that the entrepreneur who buys the land can start construction on the same day. Previously, coordinating documents could take up to a year.
The head of state emphasized the need to extend this experience not only to land plots but also to state-owned objects and industrial zones put up for sale.
The meeting also discussed the development of 13 neighborhoods that were transferred from the Tashkent region to the Sergeli district six years ago. These areas contain 14,500 households with over 50,000 residents. It was noted that residents of these territories still do not fully feel the urban environment.
In these neighborhoods, 629 reinforced concrete poles for street lighting have been installed and cables laid. However, the system has not yet been activated, which was criticized. Officials were instructed to resolve this issue within 10 days.
Additionally, a task was set to fully connect these neighborhoods to the sewerage network by the end of the year.
In the Sergeli district, due to an increase in population and businesses, the annual electricity demand has grown by 40% over the past five years. In some neighborhoods, the voltage in the network is 1.5–2 times lower than the norm.
107 billion soums have been allocated to launch the Shaharoldi, Ozgarish, and Qumariq substations. Officials were instructed to put these facilities into operation on schedule and ensure guaranteed electricity supply to the population.
Overall, the meeting stressed that in 46 neighborhoods transferred to the Bektemir, Mirzo Ulugbek, Sergeli, Yashnobod, and Yangihayot districts of the capital, there should be no unresolved issues related to electricity, water, sewerage, and roads.
At a meeting with the president in February this year, it was noted that obtaining a construction permit currently involves 9 stages and takes 90–120 days. In international practice, the ready-to-build land mechanism reduces this period to 7–15 days.
The head of state was proposed to implement such a system in Uzbekistan: all preparatory processes are completed before land plots are put up for auction, and the winner automatically receives a full set of documents. It is planned to ban the auctioning of land that is not ready for construction.
As a result, according to a presidential decree, from October 1, 2026, land plots included in the land bank (except for private lands of category 3) will be put up for online auctions as prepared sites with agreed first-level urban planning documents.
Source: www.gazeta.uz