On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 00:39:49 +0100, David Boothroyd
wrote:

In article ,
Greg Hennessy wrote:

Planning + protection is a local issue.

Localities had that abrogated by Whitehall in 1947.

You've said that several times but it isn't true.

Are you suggesting that it didn't repeal all previous legislation and
didn't nationalise control of planning ?

The Town and
Country Planning Act 1947 created the first system of nationwide
planning control by giving all local authorities the responsibility
of preparing a development plan. It did not tell them what to put
into that plan.

Plans which required the ultimate approval of whitehall for execution.
Next.


Of course you could go back to this system.

Works for me.

It delivered the appalling Queen Anne's Mansions,

Only 'appalling' to architecture equivalent of train spotters.

on the site where the Basil Spence
brutalist Home Office is now being demolished.

What it replaced was far preferable.

Queen Anne's
Mansions rose to 14 storeys over St James's Park, because its
height was unrestricted,

It's replacement rose to 14 stories too, your point ?

Or was it preferable to have civil servants looking into Buckingham Palace
rather than the great unwashed ?

and led Queen Victoria (who could see it
from Buckingham Palace) to demand action to restrain building
heights.

Tough.



greg

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