Exclusive: UK rebuild of Beijing embassy held up as Angela Rayner faces fraught decision on Royal Mint Court site
Royal Mint Court is the former home of the Royal Mint. China is planning to build a giant embassy complex at the site.Royal Mint Court is the former home of the Royal Mint. China is planning to build a giant embassy complex at the site.
Another source said of the Chinese government’s thinking: “They see it as a reciprocal-type thing where both people want changes, but our system doesn’t really work quite as centrally as theirs does.” The Chinese government bought the Royal Mint Court site for £255m in 2018 as part of a plan to relocate its embassy from Portland Place near Regent’s Park, where it is housed in a townhouse that has become a target for Uyghur and Tibetan protesters.and made it clear to Conservative ministers it wanted them to step in and give assurances they would back a resubmitted application.
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