Those really aren’t the worst. We are agreed that sheer ugliness is a problem. Bad architects is probably not the fundamental issue though. It’s underfunded and underpowered local government, which m… (View Post)

Gove had the faintest inkling in his Levelling Up Ministry, but was sacked by Truss. (View Post)

The problem is, you kind of do notice. Because living in England, you subconsciously soak up “what goes with what”. Poundbury is an interesting experiment, a success on some measures and a failure on… (View Post)

Even Poundbury is problematic. There’s a depressing emptiness to it, no pedestrians to be seen. You can smell the ersatz. (View Post)

As for solar panels, they are crashingly ugly, but the government is best advised to incentivise them in cities rather than fuck about with the free market wholesale. (View Post)