I see that Michael Gove stops a long way short of saying that the Slab will make a positive contribution to its surroundings. In fact, of course, it will disfigure them forever, encouraging other big new development in the area as has happened in Nine Elms.
If he is so lukewarm about it, why did he approve it ?
Money, money, money.
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
As Prof. Raymond Williams might have said again, were he still with us, “Many modern ruralists, many urban conservationists, see ‘the state’ or ‘the planners’ as their essential enemy, when it is quite evident that what the state is administering and the planners serving is an economic system which is capitalist in all its main intentions, procedures and criteria” – The Country and the City, p. 294, (1973)