
Nicholas Boys-Smith: Housebuilding needs a direct planning revolution
The second piece in our mini-series on housing argues that the planning system needs a far greater focus on buildings that people like.
The second piece in our mini-series on housing argues that the planning system needs a far greater focus on buildings that people like.
We sometimes forget the downside of Macmillan’s legacy – rushed housing that later cost a fortune to put right.
“Some who did the damage to our country were crass and careless. But some wrought monstrous havoc knowingly, wilfully. All of them Philistines. Well now the Philistines have met their David.”
Abstraction has its place – in modern art that no one is forced to look at or an experimental novel that no one has to read.