Neo-1tidor and the Nimbys
From Mr Keith Chambers Sir: Well said, Ross Clark ('What's wrong with mock-Tudor?', 27 November). A lot of modern mass-produced housing does have a dreary sameness about it. He correctly iden- tifies the shackles of planning law, which rejects designs that are 'out of keeping' (i.e. do not match other properties) with the neighbourhood, and the taste-police twee- ness mentality of English Heritage. Let's allow Clark's 'islands of opportunity ... which gave us all that pre-1910 architec- ture that Nimbys so admire', or, more tellingly, which the Nimbys seek to buy themselves, when they are eventually able to move from the dreary, unimaginative, approved housing they advocate for others. Keith Chambers
19 Hill Road, Oakley, Basingstoke, Hampshire
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