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That brings me back to the planning issue. If Alex Carlile, as an individual, applied to build a Holocaust memorial and learning centre in Victoria Tower Gardens, it would be refused because of Section 8 of the London County Council (Improvements) Act 1900. However, this is no such application. The applicant this time is the Secretary of State and the Bill is in front of the House—that is, he is applying to your Lordships. The application had to be to Parliament because it involves the statutory decision to overrule the 1900 Act of Parliament that made Victoria Tower Gardens immune from such development.