Government design chief calls for return to a Victorian planning system

摘要

The leader of the government’s new quango responsible for housing design standards has said the UK had been “confused” about planning regulations since the Second World War and called for a return to a Victorian system. Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith, who co-chaired the government’s Building Better Building Beautiful Commission with the late Roger Scruton, said that “organic learnings” had been rejected in the post-war era in a drive to reject the pre-war past.