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I am beginning to wonder what is the value of the planning system as a whole. It uses up vast amounts of resources (time and money) for both the tax payer and the applicant with very little benefit to the environment. I can understand controls over land use and restrictions on listed buildings but do we see better resulting standards of design than other western countries especially looking at the mundane rather than the architectural?

It would be interesting if the whole system, apart from my reservations above, was scrapped for perhaps five years just to see what happens.

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