The Salient Tigress

There is a very special part of England, the eastern part of East Anglia. It has areas of special landscape importance and this was made famous by the paintings of John Constable in the eighteenth century. During the course of the twenty-first century, one of the means of generating electricity that has really grown has been wind power. This means that the transmission of electricity from the East Anglian coast to the great centres of population, especially London, has become

Can anyone believe this? Turns out that a communication mast for mobile phones was built near to a high-pressure gas main. It had been there for decades, quite literally. The providers decide, or are forced, to remove it without notice leaving some thousands of people without signal. This is 2026 – we can’t live without signal. The providers put in a planning application to replace the ugly old mast with a sleek new one but the local planning authority refuse it, just like th

Have you noticed how expensive everything is now and how difficult it is to pay for things? Do you think this is the same for everyone, or do you think some people find it quite easy to pay and others are finding it even more difficult? I only ask.

Did you know that planning applications in the UK used to be decided by publicly elected committees? Then, the smaller applications could be decided by the planning officers? If the ward councillor asked for a small application to go to the committee, this would be allowed. Then, it became much more difficult to have applications heard by the planning committee because the planning officers did not want it to happen. By stages, public access to the elected committees have be

Can you think of another specialist design profession where the details of bespoke/unique designs have to be uploaded to publicly accessible platforms that are the websites of local government offices? Is it pharmaceuticals? Is it car designers? Is it software designers? Is it military hardware designers? Is it examination paper writers? Is it crossword puzzle designers? Is it car tyre rubber designers? Is it ice-cream recipe writers? No to all of these. It is architects.