SaveVictoriaTowerGdn

Still fighting the proposal to build in elegant, historic, well-loved Victoria Tower Gardens, but now on Insta and Bluesky.

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Ideal spot for an underground learning centre?

@AngelaRayner @LordWajidKhan @EricPickles @edballs @UKHMF @EnvAgency @MayorofLondon
#UKHolocaustMemorial #HolocaustLearningCentre

[Thames Path National Trail @ThamesPathNT]

High tide seeping through the embankment wall in Victoria Tower Gardens on the #ThamesPath National Trail afternoon. @AlanBarrierEA @Tidal_Thames95
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.@EricPickles have you seen the state of St James’s Park today? Honestly, what a dump!!

Have you got £200m to fix it?

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Just some of the stoical peers who were in the @UKHouseofLords chamber until the early hours of this morning, arguing and voting for amendments to the terribly flawed Holocaust Memorial Bill.

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…which will be debated again in @UKHouseofLords tomorrow.

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Charles Moore writes in today’s @Telegraph…

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…about the UK Holocaust Memorial & Learning Centre proposed for Victoria Tower Gardens…

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[Ames Collection @Ames_Collection]

SO pleased to see that @europanostra has recognised the important heritage value @SaveVTG. It is a vital historic green lung in the 💚 of London at risk of development and rising water💧levels @LDNGardensTrust @ThamesEstPart

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Lord Ian Austin on Thursday vs @LordIanAustin on Friday.
#Security #Risk

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Also, would you really want to be flippant about fire risk on project where Lord Pickles is involved……😣

[Ian Austin @LordIanAustin]

Peers opposing the plan claim it will put people at risk of being poisoned by novichok, fentanyl or some other gas hidden in terrorists' rectums, being drowned, burnt alive, trampled to death, or blown to bits by rockets fired from traffic nearby or even boats on the river.

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That 50 sites were considered, before VTG was chosen in ‘a moment of genius’.

But we’re the fantasists.

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Whereas supporters claim that construction will only cost £191m, and Adjaye had nothing to do with the design. 🧵

But we’re the fantasists.

[Ian Austin @LordIanAustin]

Peers opposing the plan claim it will put people at risk of being poisoned by novichok, fentanyl or some other gas hidden in terrorists' rectums, being drowned, burnt alive, trampled to death, or blown to bits by rockets fired from traffic nearby or even boats on the river.

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That it will take up a mere 7.5% of the park (but please don’t hold them to square footages, because that would ‘make the proposed scheme undeliverable’. In fact, don’t use measurements at all. Just look at the ‘little lines’ on the plan.)

But we’re the fantasists.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

For years, a planned Holocaust memorial in London has been beset by delays, legal challenges, rocketing costs, and the emotionally complicated spectacle of very old survivors speaking both in favor and against it. https://t.co/4Rdoa7tCzH

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@barnell_andrew @BobBlackman @GiorgioAnnecch1 Apparently not! But for the moment we’ll just have to guess at its membership and officers.

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Two questions:
- is this the same APPG that does not appear in the October 2024 Register of APPGs?
- will you be publishing minutes of the great meeting?
@BobBlackman @GiorgioAnnecch1 any answers?

[UK Holocaust Memorial @UKHMF]

Great meeting at the Holocaust Memorial APPG yesterday, discussing the proposed content of the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre. Thank you to all those that attended.

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@Daryl_S_London Thank you. Very good! More and more people are seeing the problems…

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The Holocaust Memorial Bill is currently in the Lords, where the Government is arguing that Holocaust survivors do not have the right be heard in relation to a Holocaust Memorial!

In today’s @thetimes William Shawcross runs through just a few of the proposal’s many failings.

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Hooray!

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And it’s surely easier to preserve existing green spaces than create new ones.
#VictoriaTowerGardens #UKHolocaustMemorial

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