Slaves to detail must not win urban battle

We have wound ourselves into a Gordian knot. We allow a cynical builder to construct 14 units in mock heritage style shoehorned inelegantly onto a site appropriate for half that amount; while an ambitious, daring and modern interpretation that challenges the site and tries in its own way to contribute ...

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