The fourth part of a ConHome series this week on housing and planning in the wake of the Queen’s Speech.
The response to the Marble Arch Mound showed how effectively bad architecture can be weaponised as a tool to extract political capital.
There are plenty of interesting ideas in here, but they add up merely to trying to do established policy a little better.
For decades, we have consistently failed to uphold the standards of beauty, durability, craftsmanship and construction required to make our public buildings, including schools, last for 130 years and not just 30.