Save The Green Park From Huge Monument

We, the undersigned, call on The Bomber Command Association to withdraw the current Planning Application for a memorial to be erected in The Green Park. To consider an alternative location and reconsider the form and size of the memorial. We call upon The Prime Minister to support this change, whilst recognising the wish for a memorial in central London. We call upon Westminster City Council to take note of our objections.

The memorial would be to the 55,573 members of Bomber Command who died in the defence of the Nation in WW2 and are remembered in the RAF church of St Clement Danes in the Strand, and on many memorials all over the country. It is not right that this emotive cause should result in the destruction of some of this precious parkland. A possible and a preferred location in Central London would be on the Embankment near the Battle of Britain and the National RAF memorials.

This memorial is planned to stretch for 85m from Hyde Park Corner, with a building half way down. It would mean the loss of natural habitat, the grassland, the hedge and some mature trees. It would change forever the precious separation between surrounding developments and that sense of escape, peace and calm in the park.

The proposal contravenes many Planning Policies on Open Space, design and within ‘an area of too many memorials’ etc. We feel that all London's open spaces, their trees and wildlife habitats must be protected against development, and The Green Park in particular.

Please find another location for this memorial.

Yours sincerely,