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As the law requires, further consultation took place around the planning application. More than 4,000 written representations were submitted. A six-week planning inquiry was held, in public, at which more than 50 interested parties spoke. All the details of the planning application—more than 6,000 pages of information, all of which remains publicly accessible online—were closely scrutinised. The design team and the co-chairs of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation were cross-examined by learned counsel. Scrutiny of the planning application included looking at the proposed security measures, both those to be incorporated into the memorial and learning centre to meet the assessed threat and those proposed as part of operational procedures. Both aspects of these measures will be reviewed and updated routinely in response to the existing threat assessment. Alternative sites were also considered as part of the planning application and dealt with in the inspector’s report.