Red tape can’t be allowed to hold up the Holocaust memorial any longer | Rowan Moore
by Rowan Moore from US news | The Guardian on (#6BYCY)
Plans for an accompanying education centre are blocking progress, but London already has one at the nearby Imperial War Museum
The Nazi concentration camp survivor Manfred Goldberg was 84 when David Cameron promised a British memorial to the Holocaust. Last month I celebrated my 93rd birthday and I pray to be able to attend the opening of this important project," he says on the government website.
That day has been put still further off by a procedural hitch in plans to amend a 1900 act that forbids buildings on its proposed site, Victoria Tower Gardens, a public park just up the Thames from the Palace of Westminster.
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