Conservation campaign group Save Britain’s Heritage is to seek an early meeting with the body conducting the review of Parliament’s refurbishment.

It is attempting to capitalise on yesterday’s announcement that BDP’s £4bn restoration and renewal plans are to be subject to a fundamental review which also casts doubt on the future of AHMM’s part of the jigsaw, a temporary Commons chamber on the site of Richmond House on Whitehall.

The campaigners are keen to present their alternative proposals for a temporary House of Commons which have been drawn up by architects including Mark Hines and Hopkins and which they say could save £500m.

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