The planning laws in the UK are, in my opinion, disfunctional and have no consistency at all. The town planners and local authorities who make the final decisions are far from being qualified to do so and base their decisions on their own personal opinions, which more often than not have been formed out if mis-information and undue pressures such as costs.
I applaud Charles' interest in architecture, but I do not applaud his attempts to influence these things in an apparently underhand and undemocratic way. It would be nice if he spent more time promoting the royal family in a more positive and acceptable light or at least try and change the dreadful state of local authority housing and council estates, which might prove more successful than his former sister-in-law's attempts!
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J A C K
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Behold the world.
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