Holocaust Memorial Bill Committee announces programme of hearings to consider petitions against Bill

• Public Hearing: Full Programme
• Watch ParliamentTV: Petitioning against the Holocaust Memorial Bill
• Holocaust Memorial Bill Select Committee

The Committee provides individuals and bodies directly and specially affected by the Bill with the opportunity to petition against the Bill’s specific provisions and to seek its amendment.

The Bill would remove existing restrictions on building in Victoria Tower Gardens next to Parliament. The existing restrictions relate to the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900, which requires Victoria Tower Gardens to be “laid out and maintained … for use as a garden open to the public”.

The Bill would disapply sections of the 1900 Act to enable the memorial to be built. Planning consent would still be required.

The Committee will hear from petitioners to the Bill in public hearings. The full programme can be accessed here.

The Committee cannot hear petitions on whether there should be a memorial or a learning centre, whether at Victoria Tower Gardens or elsewhere, or whether or not planning permission and all other necessary consents should be given.

On Wednesday 10 January, the Committee heard from the Bill’s promoter – legal representatives of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The hearing can be viewed here.

Petitions submitted against the Bill can be read on the Committee’s website.

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