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Robert Jenrick
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COMMUNITIES Minister Robert Jenrick announced in the Sunday Telegraph in mid-January and subsequently in the House of Commons that he plans to make any changes to historic statues and monuments subject to planning laws.
The considerable number of statues and monuments that are already protected (mainly against property developers) are already subject to law.
The historian Dan Hicks tweeted that he doubted that statues which are not already covered would be found to be worthy of being so.
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