Tear up the Rule Book

The intersection of design and democracy should be an exhilarating moment of civic and spatial richness. Instead British architecture is blockaded by a byzantine planning culture at best onerous and at worst corrupt. Feckless backseat-designer planning officers take out their churlish frustrations on the smallest of schemes, demanding ill-conceived arbitrary alterations bleeding the vivacity from our streets and homes as vast bland monocultural developments are nodded through. Nostalgia for a brief era of post-war planning heroics is hopeless. Given anarchic freedom we created the Georgian great estates. Given paternalistic planning we created Taylor Wimpey. Fire the planners and tear up the rule book – anarchy for the UK.

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