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THE government is pushing on with its bill to create a Holocaust memorial and learning centre at Victoria Tower Gardens, alongside the Palace of Westminster, despite vehement opposition, including from some members of the Jewish community.
Permission now depends on parliament overriding the London County Council (Improvements) Act of 1900, which set out that the gardens “should be in perpetuity a public garden for the interests of those living there”. A bill to do just that has now cleared the grand committee stage in the House of Lords.