{"id":21967,"date":"2019-03-12T16:12:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=21967"},"modified":"2019-03-11T18:29:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:29:18","slug":"royal-parks-opposes-proposal-for-london-holocaust-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=21967","title":{"rendered":"Royal Parks opposes proposal for London Holocaust memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"website\"<\/a>Proposals for a Holocaust memorial have been dealt a blow after the charity responsible for looking after the central London park in which it is supposed to be built said it was opposed the move as it will have \u2018significant harmful impacts\u2019.<\/h3>\n

<\/p>\n

The Guardian<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n

The new landmark, which would also feature a learning centre, is planned for Victoria Tower Gardens on Millbank, alongside the River Thames close to the Houses of Parliament. It will be dedicated to the 6 million Jewish men, women and children and other victims murdered by the Nazis.<\/p>\n

A planning application for the memorial is currently being considered by Westminster city council. But Royal Parks, a charity which looks after Victoria Tower Gardens, said it did not support the planning application \u2018given the impact it will have on a popular public amenity space in an area of the capital with few public parks\u2019.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Westminster\u2019s planning team, Royal Parks described the gardens as a \u2018highly sensitive location in planning and heritage terms\u2019 It said the small triangular green space was a grade II registered park located next to Westminster Abbey and the Houses of Parliament \u2013 collectively designated as a world heritage site.<\/p>\n

The Holocaust memorial\u2019s design features 23 large bronze fin structures that visitors can walk among, leading up to the underground learning centre.\u00a0 Royal Parks said it \u2018strongly supports\u2019 the principle of the project but believes its scale and design would have \u2018significant harmful impacts\u2019 on the \u2018character and function\u2019 of the park. It warned the learning centre would \u2018fundamentally change the historic character and associated vistas in and out of the park\u2019. \u2018The structure will dominate the park and eclipse the existing listed memorials which are nationally important in their own right,\u2019 the letter added.\u2026<\/p>\n

A spokesman for Westminster city council said: \u2018The council can\u2019t comment on outstanding applications\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n

Read more….<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Proposals for a Holocaust memorial have been dealt a blow after the charity responsible for looking after the central London park in which it is supposed to be built said it was opposed the move as it will have \u2018significant … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21969,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21967\/revisions\/21969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}