Heritage protectors are against the promenade by Herget's brickworks in Prague

Prague - The monument protectors from the Club for Old Prague do not like the city's plan to build a waterfront and a pedestrian promenade near Herget's Brickworks. According to them, this bank is the only unregulated section in the city center, and any paved construction would disrupt its visual integrity, the club stated in a statement received by ČTK today. The city stands by its plan.
At Herget's Brickworks, there is a stone path that served during the construction of flood barriers. According to Jiří Toman, the director of the city investor department, the removal of the path would cost between 800,000 and one million crowns. The costs for paving would be lower, around 300,000 crowns. "I don't understand why there shouldn't be a path there," Toman told ČTK today.
The idea of building a promenade for pedestrians along Herget's Brickworks was suggested in the past by its tenant, entrepreneur Sebastian Pawlowski. According to Toman, the city has revived this idea. However, the construction of a footbridge over Čertovka, which sparked the most controversy, is not anticipated, the director stated. Instead of a footbridge, there should be a small ferry.
Representatives of the Club for Old Prague say that there is already too much tourist traffic in this part of Malá Strana, relating to the operation of the Kampa Park and Herget's Brickworks restaurants. "It creates an unpleasant impression of an amusement park at a suburban level," they wrote in the statement. The current treatment of the bank has been described by the club as an undignified vulgarization and commercial exploitation.
"We do not understand why the city is willing to not only promote the plan but even to finance it when the only meaningful explanation for its implementation is to bring customers to the restaurants along the bank via a new path," the club stated in its declaration.
The city has presented the plan for assessment to the Prague office of the National Heritage Institute for the third time. Heritage officials have rejected it twice.