The Rákóczi Castle, St. Elizabeth’s House and Roman Catholic Basilica have recently been renovated. The communal spaces linking them are unworthy of the renovated attractions, are difficult to use and specifically destroy the comfort of the local community, the visitor experience. In synergy with the renovated buildings, it is necessary to create a Castle Quarter that makes up a complex whole, in order to demonstrate the real local value of this heritage. In the Castle District of Sárospataki you can find among other things the Basilica of Sárospataki, the Szent Elizabeth House, the Sárospataki Gallery, the Rákóczi Museum of the Hungarian National Museum with the fortress garden and the Újbástya event centre, making the area a priority heritage and cultural value of our city. Already in 2012, Sárospatak started to examine the future development and operation issues of the Rákóczi Castle and the Castle District surrounding St. Erzsébet street (besides the preservation of value and value creation), with regard to cityscape and town planning. There is a strong need to develop an image and city image that strengthens the strength and attractiveness of the city and the local community, and in the case of developments affecting the city’s future, it is necessary to introduce the practice of socialised planning. The importance of the area of development is an outstanding cultural and community space function in real and figurative terms. The area of Sárospatak is the most valuable area in terms of its function. In the second half of the 20th century, and then in the last decade, there were important developments from the point of view of urban history (Construction of the Cultural Center in 1983, Makovecz Square in 2014), but the importance of the Castle Quarter has not diminished from the point of view of universal Hungarian culture and history. The current state of the public areas of the Castle District is no longer sustainable. The state of the roads, pavements and utilities of the area is tragic in the 70s. The possibility of accessing historical monuments is shameful, the total rehabilitation of the site cannot be postponed further. The owner of the development area — the Municipality of the City — made other attempts to renew the area several times, but there were no preparatory funds available before, and the funding background for the complex development was not provided at government level either. The total rehabilitation of the site can only be envisaged on the basis of an extremely thorough preparation phase, since the archaeological exploration of the site has not yet been carried out, the state of the utilities can only be deduced from the symptoms. In the framework of this tender, the Castle Quarter (Szent Erzsébet utca, Urbán György Köz, Water Gate Exit, Kossuth utca, see: description of development area appendix). The goal is the socialised planning of public spaces, the ultimate output of which is a complex design documentation with a building permit, which provides the basis for the realisation of the development after the immediate exploration of the resources. The aim of the project is to increase the cultural and tourism competitiveness of the settlement, so the goal of the socialised planning of the complex development of the Castle Quarter in the framework of the key project is the detailed development concept plan developed on the basis of the proposals of the local population, professional organisations, civil society and property owners, followed by an authorisation plan and its authorisation procedure. The ultimate objective is to obtain a building permit allowing complex renovation of the site.