diff --git a/src/frontend/app/store/helpers/entity-relations.ts b/src/frontend/app/store/helpers/entity-relations.ts
index 646f1e24b5..93ee7356f5 100644
--- a/src/frontend/app/store/helpers/entity-relations.ts
+++ b/src/frontend/app/store/helpers/entity-relations.ts
@@ -152,13 +152,14 @@ function createSingleAction(config: HandleRelationsConfig) {
 
 function createPaginationAction(config: HandleRelationsConfig) {
   const { cfGuid, parentRelation, parentEntity, childRelation, childEntitiesUrl, includeRelations, populateMissing } = config;
+  const parentGuid = parentEntity.metadata ? parentEntity.metadata.guid : parentEntity.entity.guid;
   return new FetchRelationPaginatedAction(
     cfGuid,
-    parentEntity.metadata.guid,
+    parentGuid,
     parentRelation,
     childRelation,
     includeRelations,
-    createEntityRelationPaginationKey(parentRelation.entityKey, parentEntity.metadata.guid, childRelation.entity.relationKey),
+    createEntityRelationPaginationKey(parentRelation.entityKey, parentGuid, childRelation.entity.relationKey),
     populateMissing,
     childEntitiesUrl
   );
@@ -490,7 +491,7 @@ export function populatePaginationFromParent(store: Store<AppState>, action: Pag
     withLatestFrom(store.select(getAPIRequestDataState)),
     map(([entityState, allEntities]) => {
       const [entityInfo, entity] = entityState;
-      if (!entityInfo || !entity) {
+      if (!entity) {
         return;
       }
       // Find the property name (for instance a list of routes in a parent space would have param name `routes`)
diff --git a/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/api-request-data-reducer/request-data-reducer.factory.ts b/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/api-request-data-reducer/request-data-reducer.factory.ts
index 17ca2cb199..68e4f624f0 100644
--- a/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/api-request-data-reducer/request-data-reducer.factory.ts
+++ b/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/api-request-data-reducer/request-data-reducer.factory.ts
@@ -78,7 +78,17 @@ function populateParentEntity(state, successAction) {
   const childRelation = parentEntityTree.rootRelation.childRelations.find(rel => rel.entityKey === successAction.apiAction.entityKey);
   const entityParamName = childRelation.paramName;
 
-  let newParentEntity = pathGet(`${parentEntityKey}.${parentGuid}`, state) || {};
+  let newParentEntity = pathGet(`${parentEntityKey}.${parentGuid}`, state);
+  if (!newParentEntity) {
+    // We haven't yet fetched the parent entity so create one to store this list in. This can be used to fetch the child list in the future.
+    // NOTE - This should not contain the metadata property as the lack thereof forces the entity to fail validation and to be fetched
+    // properly with all it's properties
+    newParentEntity = {
+      entity: {
+        guid: parentGuid,
+      }
+    };
+  }
   newParentEntity = {
     ...newParentEntity,
     entity: {
diff --git a/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/pagination-reducer/pagination-reducer.helper.ts b/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/pagination-reducer/pagination-reducer.helper.ts
index e877a4a01d..95fca26274 100644
--- a/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/pagination-reducer/pagination-reducer.helper.ts
+++ b/src/frontend/app/store/reducers/pagination-reducer/pagination-reducer.helper.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { Store } from '@ngrx/store';
-import { combineLatest ,  Observable } from 'rxjs';
+import { combineLatest, Observable } from 'rxjs';
 import { filter, first, publishReplay, refCount, switchMap, tap, distinctUntilChanged } from 'rxjs/operators';
 
 import { PaginationMonitor } from '../../../shared/monitors/pagination-monitor';