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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Nicholas Cecil

Foreign Office and Home Office drop demand for security changes at new Chinese mega-embassy in London

The Foreign Office and Home Office have dropped a demand for security changes at the proposed new Chinese mega-embassy in London to deal with an emergency incident, The Standard can reveal.

They had been requesting that a planning condition be a new “hard perimeter” for part of the proposed sprawling new diplomatic complex at Royal Mint Court in Tower Hamlets to address “public safety risks and risks to the security of the embassy” .

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