Royal fail

[mirrorshard]

Looks like Prince Charles is being an idiot again.

Summary: Foreign firm Qatari Diar commissions Lord Rogers to design a block of flats. Charlie writes in to complain, probably in green ink. Qatari Diar withdraws planning application.

Dammit, I want attractive modern buildings on my city's skyline. I don't want a half-arsed pastiche job that looks like it belongs in some third-rate Lowry knockoff.

He'd be a lovely chap if only he gave up the princing job. (And the duking job, and everything else he got from his mum.)

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

There were a lot more complaints that just the Prince's. Apparently there were hundreds just from the locality.

[mirrorshard.livejournal.com]

It's perfectly normal to write to the planning department, though, or even to the firm's Department of Being Concerned. The one who could write to the MD and get listened to, however, is the Prince.