"Adrian" wrote in message
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Grunff ) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were
saying :

Woo! Let's all live in identikit ticky-tacky new-builds!

But don't you see, the only reason these keep being built is because
people keep buying them! It's called 'the freedom to choose'.

No argument. People are more than welcome to live in Kettering if they
wish, more fool them.

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...?

If you'd rather have council planning enforcement officers roaming every
street at regular intervals, paid for out of council tax, of course, then
the only other alternative is for residents to provide some of the
information.

This is a pointless argument. We'll never agree and it would be better to
agree to disagree :-)