Question follow-through · 12910

Chinese Embassy: Planning Permission

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of alternative sites for the prospective relocation of the Chinese Embassy, aside from the proposed developm

answeredMinistry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

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Answering body: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Tabled: 6 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 12 Nov 2024
Answer: 12 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Votes on this topic

Social Housing Bill [Lords]: Reasoned Amendment to Second Reading · 10 Sept 2026
Draft Town and Country Planning (Discharge of Local Planning Authority Functions) (England) Regulations 2026 · 8 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

6 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether her Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of alternative sites for the prospective relocation of the Chinese Embassy, aside from the proposed developm
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Nov 2024
Answer published
Applications relating to the proposals for a new Chinese Embassy at Royal Mint Court have been called in for Ministers to decide. Calling in these applications should not be taken as any indication of views on the merits of the proposals.An appointed Insp...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Embassies: China

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether she has had discussions with the Metropolitan Police on the called-in application for the proposed new Chinese embassy in Tower Hamlets.

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