{"id":42280,"date":"2025-02-28T17:07:42","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42280"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:07:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T17:07:42","slug":"ihbc-features-heritage-from-the-doorstep-council-unable-to-argue-against-chinese-embassy-proposal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=42280","title":{"rendered":"IHBC features \u2018Heritage from the doorstep\u2019: Council \u2018unable\u2019 to argue against Chinese Embassy proposal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tower Hamlet\u2019s rejection of Chinese Embassy plans in the borough in December was based on police objections which have since been withdrawn, reports <em>The Slice Tower Hamlets magazine<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Slice Tower Hamlets<\/em>\/ Whitechapel LDN writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plans to create a Chinese \u2018super-embassy\u2019 opposite the Tower of London were boosted on Tuesday as the Council confirmed it could not argue against the proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026 Tower Hamlets Council admitted it is \u2018no longer in a position to present evidence\u2019 for why the project should be refused.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morag Ellis KC, a lawyer acting on behalf of the council, told Tuesday\u2019s hearing that due to the Met withdrawing its objection, the council was \u2018no longer in a position to present evidence in support of the putative reason for refusal\u2019\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christopher Katkowski KC, a lawyer speaking on behalf of the embassy, said there was \u2018literally no basis\u2019 on which the proposed embassy could be refused permission\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/whitechapellondon.co.uk\/council-admits-unable-to-argue-against-chinese-embassy-planning-inspectorate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=35732\">IHBC NewsBlog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tower Hamlet\u2019s rejection of Chinese Embassy plans in the borough in December was based on police objections which have since been withdrawn, reports The Slice Tower Hamlets magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,23,9,29,16],"class_list":["post-42280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog","tag-conservation","tag-expertise","tag-government","tag-heritage","tag-planning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42280","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42281,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42280\/revisions\/42281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}