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The memorial must be built at Victoria Tower Gardens, next to Parliament
A proposed Holocaust memorial for the exterior of Parliament would "have a significant negative impact" on the region, said the Royal Parks.
The monument should be built at Victoria Tower Gardens on Millbank, along the Thames.
Royal Parks, who is in charge of space, said he could not support the projects, as the Grade II park was an "extremely sensitive place".
The application is currently being reviewed by Westminster City Council.
The proposed memorial includes 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning center.
It will be dedicated to the six million men, women, children and other Jewish victims murdered by the Nazis.
The project was announced in 2016 by then Prime Minister David Cameron under the leadership of the UK Holocaust Memorial Foundation.
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The proposed plans include 23 large bronze fin structures and an underground learning center.
In a letter to the board, Royal Parks stated that he "strongly" supported the principle of the project, but that he thought the current design would have "significant adverse effects" on "character and function" of the park.
"The structure will dominate the park and eclipse existing memorials that have national significance in themselves," said the charity.
Royal Parks added that the expected number of visitors would create "queues and traffic jams" and "change the nature of what is currently a casual park".
It has been predicted that one million people would visit the memorial during its first year.
The architect Sir David Adjaye, who led the design team, has already stated that "disrupting the pleasure of being in a park is the key to thinking" of the memorial.
However, he later added that the architects were working to have 90% of the original park conserved.
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More than 10,000 people signed an online petition calling on the government to reconsider the location.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Housing, Communities and Local Government said that "no place in Britain is more conducive to building the memorial."
"The proposals were developed with great sensitivity to the context and character of the gardens," she said.
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