11. The site is also within the setting of a number of other listed buildings and structures, including the Grade I listed Palace of Westminster, Lambeth Bridge (Grade II listed), Victoria Tower Lodge and Gates to Black Rod Garden (Grade I listed), Norwest House, Millbank (Grade II listed), The Church Commissioners (Grade II* listed) and Lambeth Palace (Grade I listed). 12. The site is located within the Westminster Abbey and Parliament Square Conservation Area and is immediately south of the Palace of Westminster and Westminster Abbey including St. Margaret’s Church World Heritage Site. The site is to the east of the Smith Square Conservation Area. Site selection 13. The UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation was established with cross-party support to deliver the recommendations of the Holocaust Memorial Commission. Its work included a call for potential sites. 14. In 2015, after studying the available options, three central London sites were identified; the Imperial War Museum; Potter’s Field and Millbank. They were all regarded as fulfilling the Commission’s objective to provide a striking new memorial prominently located in Central London. 15. In January 2016, the then Prime Minster announced that the memorial would be built in Victoria Tower Gardens. A design competition was launched in September 2016 and in October 2017 it was announced that Adjaye Associates, Ron Arad Architects and the landscape architects Gustafson Porter + Bowman had been selected to design the Memorial and Learning Centre for the Gardens. 16. The selection of Victoria Tower Gardens as the site was controversial. In its closing submissions to the planning inquiry, the Trust expressed concern that the Gardens were chosen without any professional assessment to support the choice of the site and no public consultation as to its suitability, acceptability or desirability as a location. Proper consideration of alternative sites were said to have received scant consideration. The Trust expressed further concern that the site search process was not a matter for scrutiny in the public inquiry. These concerns formed part of the Trust’s submissions to the Court on the Inspector’s approach to alternative sites. Planning application 17. In January 2019, the Secretary of State for Housing Communities and Local Government applied to the Council for planning permission for the Memorial to be located in the Gardens. Plans of the design illustrate the Memorial as comprising 23 bronze fins honouring the millions of Jewish men, women and children who lost their lives in the Holocaust, and all other victims of persecution, including Roma, gay and disabled people. The 23 bronze fins will create 22 pathways into and from the Learning Centre which will be constructed below ground. 18. In November 2019, the then Minister for Housing directed that the planning application be referred to her for determination, pursuant to section 77 of the Town 5