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UN says UK pols ruining Westminster as world heritage site

The scene was described by Monet as "dazzling" and "beautiful" and inspired the Impressionist master to paint some of his best loved works.

Now the Palace of Westminster has joined a list of heritage sites that ministers are accused of failing to protect.

A United Nations body overseeing "world heritage sites" is threatening to put several British areas on its Heritage in Danger List, a register of 31 historic places whose futures are in jeopardy, according to documents released under Freedom of Information...

The International Council on Monuments and Sites UK, acting on behalf of the UN, has condemned the decision by John Prescott, the Deputy Prime Minister, to approve the 50-storey Vauxhall Tower in south London...

The council has complained...about three other high-rise buildings in London...and it is also fighting skyscrapers in Edinburgh, Liverpool and Bath...[and has urged] officials to call in an application for high-rise development in the centre of Bath, which was granted heritage site status in 1987.
Read entire article at Telegraph