>The trust’s lawyer, Richard Drabble QC, also said the plans did not comply with a 1900 legal act affecting park land, whose requirements represented “a prohibition on using Victoria Tower Gardens as anything other than a garden open to the public”.
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>In a ruling issued on Friday, Mrs Justice Thornton said the trust’s case against the planning permission decision succeeded in relation to its arguments over the 1900 act.
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>The judge said the act “imposes an enduring obligation” to retain land “as a public garden and integral part of the existing Victoria Tower Gardens”.
That’s good, it doesn’t seem the correct place for it to me. I don’t think it’s the right place for any memorial to be honest.
Really pleased with this, makes absolutely no sense for us to have one, and especially not to put it where they wanted.
I think it’s important to have a memorial to British survivors of the Holocaust and I think all genocides (Armenian, Rwandan, Cambodian ect) should be remembered. However I think the location is ill conceived.
Not the right place for it in my opinion. If it was the memorial garden option, which was much better suited for the area then that would make sense. But the excavations for the approved design would have damaged the trees and ruined the green space.
Nobody commenting in this thread so far is in favour of a Holocaust memorial.
How thoroughly unsurprising.
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>The trust’s lawyer, Richard Drabble QC, also said the plans did not comply with a 1900 legal act affecting park land, whose requirements represented “a prohibition on using Victoria Tower Gardens as anything other than a garden open to the public”.
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>In a ruling issued on Friday, Mrs Justice Thornton said the trust’s case against the planning permission decision succeeded in relation to its arguments over the 1900 act.
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>The judge said the act “imposes an enduring obligation” to retain land “as a public garden and integral part of the existing Victoria Tower Gardens”.
That’s good, it doesn’t seem the correct place for it to me. I don’t think it’s the right place for any memorial to be honest.
Really pleased with this, makes absolutely no sense for us to have one, and especially not to put it where they wanted.
I think it’s important to have a memorial to British survivors of the Holocaust and I think all genocides (Armenian, Rwandan, Cambodian ect) should be remembered. However I think the location is ill conceived.
Not the right place for it in my opinion. If it was the memorial garden option, which was much better suited for the area then that would make sense. But the excavations for the approved design would have damaged the trees and ruined the green space.
Nobody commenting in this thread so far is in favour of a Holocaust memorial.
How thoroughly unsurprising.