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Old Posted Jan 18, 2013, 8:35 AM
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A response is being prepared by the UK authorities. Unesco’s World Heritage Committee last year recommended that the UK should “regulate further build-up of the area surrounding the Shard of Glass building, ensuring that approved heights do not exceed a height whereby they would become visible above the on-site historic buildings”.
They can not be serious. It's one thing to want to protect views of old London; it's a whole other thing to admonish folks to protect views from old London. I could definitely understand some concern if something huge and imposing was literally build next door to a short heritage site totally blotting out the sun, but the Shard is on the other side of the river, for goodness sake.
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