Yeah. My totally uninformed take is that they'd probably not change the rules unless they were very sure it would be a defeat, say about 2/3rds to 1/3rd. And even then I'd guess that people… (View Post)

In this analogy, I think I (like most people but by no means all) am not a bank employee but a customer or perhaps a very minor one-share shareholder, though. I don't influence what policies the… (View Post)

If you're a 17th century astronomer looking to construct a heliometer there probably aren't that many suitably sized buildings with big open floors directly under their roofs. So you persua… (View Post)

Totally agreed on reversing the infill -- for me the main reason is that I don't think we should let people get away with sidestepping rules by presenting that kind of "oops, but it's … (View Post)

The thing I noticed when renting an ex-council place in Cambridge was that the design was better laid out because it avoided the tricks used in private-sector builds that push up the sale price. It w… (View Post)