appreciate its multi-facetted significance. The wider effects of this relationship on the character and special interest of the park are explored below. (15.91-15.93) … 15.69 Notwithstanding these effects, the BM would remain physically unaffected by the proposal, and in this respect, its special architectural and historic interest would be preserved. That said, this outcome would fail to preserve the setting of the BM, a Grade II* listed building, in accordance with the expectations of the Act, such a consideration the Courts anticipate being given considerable importance and weight. It would also be contrary to those of paragraphs 193 and 194 of the NPPF, which anticipates great weight being given to the conservation of DHAs and their settings. Accounting for these considerations, I characterise this harm to the setting of the Grade II* memorial as being of great importance. Although this measure remains well below the threshold of substantial, I nevertheless afford this a measure of considerable weight in the heritage balance.” 41. He further considers the impact of the development on the Buxton Memorial in the context of the Registered Park and Garden at 15. 90 – 15.94: “15. 90 However, as I have determined above, despite the best efforts of the Applicant’s multi-disciplinary design team, a successful relationship between the proposed structure and the BM has not been fully achieved. The setting of the Grade II* structure would not be preserved, and it is necessary to consider this again here to understand the effect this could have the significance of the RPG. 15. 91 It is clear to all that the present location of the BM, a relocation after its storage following removal from Parliament Square, has been chosen with some care and that its installation in 1957 represents one of the more prominent postwar interventions into the park. Arguably the location chosen on the axis of Dean Stanley Street at the end of an existing path within the park was one not too difficult to arrive at. After all, such axial devices have been used before in the park, for example in the initial siting of the Pankhurst Memorial on that of Great Peter Street immediately to the north. Such a location borrows the force and symmetry of existing views, whilst giving the monument sufficient space from the others already populating the park to the north (albeit that these had arrived at their respective locations only the year before). 14

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