Billings said the planning permission decision flew in the face of serious international heritage concerns.
It was bitterly contested by its neighbours over their right to light, and subjected to a public inquiry over heritage concerns.
He overrode heritage concerns over the £1bn complex of offices, luxury apartments and shops, but a legal challenge against his decision was launched by activist and writer George Turner.
When Vivendi announced last year it was in talks to sell the publishing operations to Natexis-Banque Populaire, which would then sell them to Lagardère, Vivendi chairman and chief executive Jean-René Fourtou noted that its choice of buyer "meets the cultural and heritage concerns related to publishing and which we have never lost sight of".
The international media focused on the damage to Dubrovnik's cultural heritage; concerns about civilian casualties and pivotal battles such as the one in Vukovar were pushed out of public view.
"I'm not against expanding the mosques at all, but there are ways you can go about it without destroying the historical aspects of these sites," Irfan Al Alawi, the executive director of the Islamic Heritage Research Foundation, told CNN. "Rather than engaging with heritage concerns, the Saudis are simply not interested".
When the Holocaust came up again months later, Mukhalid, knowing of my Jewish heritage, grew concerned.
However, a lot of difficulties often appear mainly by the severe restrictions imposed when samples involved with cultural heritage are concerned.
"We just wanted to set the record straight concerning our heritage.
A report from California further suggests that greater detail should be obtained concerning Asian heritage to assess risk for diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors because relatively low coronary heart disease mortality rates were observed for those who were identified as ethnically Japanese or Chinese in comparison with those who were South Asian from India (9).
One of the major reasons cited by pregnant women for taking herbal remedies included higher efficacy of herbal medicines when compared with conventional medicines, safety in pregnancy (because they are natural products), beliefs concerning cultural heritage of herbal medicines and the relatively high cost of allopathic/conventional medicines.
