The Ministry of Economy has approved the construction of a petrol station in Mykolaiv near «Zoria»

On its third attempt, the company «Svit Zdoroviia» passed the public consultation process and obtained permission to build a petrol station complex with car service shops in the green belt near the Zoria factory in Mykolaiv.

The relevant conclusion from the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine has been published in the Unified Register of Environmental Impact Assessments.

According to the document, the Ministry of Economy reviewed the EIA report and concluded that the impact of the planned activity on the environment (soil and land resources, atmospheric air, aquatic environment, geological environment, flora and fauna, climate and microclimate, social and man-made environment) is acceptable.

«Based on the analysis of the EIA report, it has been established that the main impact of the planned activity is expected on soil, atmospheric air, the social environment, and flora and fauna. Provided that the environmental conditions established for the planned activity are met, these impacts on environmental components can be characterised as environmentally acceptable,» the conclusion states.

According to the EIA report, 192 trees are planned to be felled during construction. The replacement cost of the green spaces amounts to 4 million 180 thousand hryvnias. However, there is currently no decision by the city council’s executive body to remove these green spaces. Without this approval, the developer has no right to remove them. It is also noted that the entire area near the petrol station is to be planted with grass.

Construction of the petrol station is planned in two phases. The second phase involves the construction of a shop with a service point, similar to a car wash. The total duration of preparatory and construction works will be 7 months.

The document was signed by Marina Shymkus, Director of the Department of Environmental Assessment at the Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine, and Vitalii Kindrativ, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine. It is worth noting that Vitalii Kindrativ previously served as Deputy Head of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration.

At the same time, it should be noted that the Ecology Department of the Mykolaiv Regional State Administration refused to issue an environmental impact assessment report to Svit Zdoroviia LLC for the construction of a petrol station, a gas filling station and a shop (case №12529 of 1 August 2025).

It should be recalled that this was the developer’s third attempt to build a petrol station.

The saga surrounding the construction on Kober Street began back in 2014. At that time, the company Svit Zdoroviia acquired a plot of land near Zoria-Mashproekt for the construction of a sports and health complex. Some of the trees on the site were felled even then.

In January 2015, the conflict escalated. Residents of houses on Kober Street and employees of the Zoria-Mashproekt plant took to the streets in protest. They claimed that a petrol station was being built on the site of the complex, despite the fact that, according to the documents, a health centre was supposed to be there. According to them, construction continued at night, despite a ban by the city council. They complained about the felling of around 100 trees in the park area, trenches in the courtyards and the disruption of the ecological balance in the industrial area.

As early as 28 January 2015, the Mykolaiv City Council refused to extend the land lease for Svit Zdoroviia LLC.

In 2024, the city council initially approved the de facto renewal of the lease agreement for a 7,643-square-metre plot of land to the Lviv-based company Svit Zdoroviia, formally for the construction of a sports and health centre and the maintenance of administrative buildings. Yet just two months after this decision, the City Council approved a change in the designated use of the plot to accommodate and operate road service facilities. Both issues were tabled for consideration at the session as part of a ‘package’ with other land-related matters and were adopted without discussion.

The first public hearings took place online on 2 July 2025. At that time, participants criticised the EIA report and accused the developer of plagiarism.

Following this, the developer prepared a new EIA report. The document included a new environmental study commissioned by the company Svit Zdoroviia LLC. It stated that there were allegedly only a few scattered oak trees on the site of the future construction.

However, earlier, the commission tasked with assessing the condition of green spaces and their replacement value—comprising specialists from the City Council’s Department of Sustainable Urban Development—had recorded 111 oak trees in the same area , which constituted the main body of green spaces.

On 23 February 2026, a second public hearing was held regarding the construction of a petrol station in the park near Zoria. Representatives of the developer faced a barrage of criticism from local residents, who vowed to defend the green space.

We would also like to remind you that in November 2025, readers of NikVesti drew attention to markings on the oak trees and expressed concern that the area might be cleared for the construction of a petrol station. Following this, environmentalists inspected the oak trees along Kober Street in Mykolaiv, near the Zorya plant. According to the inspectors’ findings, all the trees are in satisfactory condition, the markings were applied haphazardly, and there are no grounds for felling them.

In turn, Andrii Yermolayev, head of Mykolaiv’s anti-corruption department and a deputy from the Propozytsiia party, revealed details of the scheme used to obtain permission to build a petrol station on the site of a green space on Bohoiavlenskyi Avenue.