Suffragette statue battle in Parliament Square set for decision

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Westminster council is tonight set to reject plans to erect a statue in Parliament Square honouring Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst in favour of a tribute to Suffragist Millicent Fawcett. Councillors on its planning committee are being advised to block an application to build a double-life-sized effigy of Pankhurst by Angela Connor on Canning Green, in front of the Supreme Court, choosing instead a smaller work depicting Fawcett by Turner Prize-winner Gillian Wearing on a different site in Parliament Square. In a report to the meeting, officers said that there was already a grade ll-listed statue honouring Pankhurst in nearby Tower Gardens and that councillors would need an "exceptionally good reason" to approve the application.