Grunff ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

But what YOU fail to see is that other people REALLY don't want to
live in them, or surrounded by them, and the only way to stop
everywhere becoming identikit ticky-tacky is to enforce planning and
conservation area regulations...?

There is no way we will ever agree on a single point, so I'm stepping
out of this one.

Odd, that, since you've snipped my agreement with your point that some
people do want to live in new-build houses.