Bureaucracy gone mad

2007-01-05T00:00:00

I recently came across my old copy of the 1972 Building Regulations, a pocket-sized volume that contained all you needed to know. Comparison with the present unwieldy version exemplifies the unnecessary complication which has occurred over the years in the legislation architects have to deal with.

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