The Ministry of Construction and Communal Services officially announced that all work at the Uchtepa City residential complex construction site has been temporarily halted. This was reported by Upl.uz.
The document published on July 11 highlighted that there are serious discrepancies between the ongoing work and the previously approved project documents. This situation prompted the ministry to take strict measures.
The project is being implemented by Great Vertex company. Initially, this project aimed to reconstruct a multi-storey parking lot in the Uchtepa district and convert it into a multifunctional residential building.
This land area was allocated to Elegant Avto Servis company by the former district mayor Shavkatbek Irgashov in 2018. Subsequently, the land rights were transferred to Great Vertex, and in 2019, an official permit was granted for the change of purpose of the facility and its complete reconstruction.
Great Vertex is a company operating in the construction sector, established in April 2019. Its charter capital is reported to be over 2.57 billion soums according to the state registry.
The process of obtaining a permit began on November 6, 2019, from the district construction department, and later, on May 21, 2020, the Tashkent city chief construction department issued an architecture and planning assignment. The project documents were prepared by Npts Masshtab Proyekt Stroy organization, and the sketch project was approved on June 23, 2023.
On January 31, 2024, the documents were re-registered at the initiative of the customer. The main reason for the current situation was the rejection of the request by the construction company to increase the number of floors on February 28, 2025.
According to the decision of the Architecture and Urban Planning Council, instead of the initially agreed 5-storey building, Great Vertex began constructing two 16-storey and three 8-storey blocks. When the supervisory authorities intervened, excavation work and foundation construction at the construction site had been fully completed, and assembly work in the underground part had begun.
The inspection in the field of construction and communal services conducted 13 inspections and found that construction work was being carried out contrary to the project. As a result of the inspection, a protocol was drawn up against the responsible employee of Great Vertex under part 1 of article 99 of the Administrative Responsibility Code.
According to the ministry's report, construction work can only be resumed after all deficiencies are eliminated and the project is adjusted to meet normative requirements. A moratorium on issuing permits for new construction has been in effect in the central area of Tashkent city since 2022.
This decision was made to preserve the historical appearance of the capital and to develop a new, balanced master plan. Nevertheless, reconstruction projects like Uchtepa City often fall into the ambiguous area of this regulation.
