Due to the historic center of Prague, a new committee will be established at the city hall

Prague - Questions regarding the care of the historic center of Prague as a UNESCO heritage site will be addressed by a new committee under the council of the capital city. The demand for its establishment arose from the last survey of UNESCO commissioners in Prague and the subsequent decision of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee. The establishment of the committee - the World Heritage Council, was approved by Prague councilors at today's meeting, effective December 3. According to the explanatory report for the approved material, this is the third establishment of the World Heritage Council, which was first created in 2013 and then again in 2015.

The chairman of the twelve-member World Heritage Council will be Tomáš Drdácký from the Department of Heritage Science of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Academy of Sciences. Other members of the new committee will include, for example, the head of municipal heritage conservators Jiří Skalický, the director of the regional expert workplace of the National Heritage Institute in Prague Jaroslav Podliska, and Petr Chotěbor from the heritage care department of the Office of the President of the Republic.

The historic center of Prague has been on the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage list since 1992. UNESCO commissioners, who regularly conduct inspections in the capital, have long criticized both existing and planned construction of high-rise buildings. In the current evaluation report, they demand a revision of the metropolitan plan or recommend halting the project Residence Park Kavčí hory. On the other hand, they praised the improvement of previously neglected buildings and positively evaluated the office, commercial, and residential project Smíchov City.