Tackling bad buildings
Preparing a tower block for demolition
The people have spoken: our towns, cities, villages and countryside are full of buildings you'd like to see the back of. You would like to help them on their way, but where do you start?
This section is full of practical advice about where to go for help and how to campaign for change. Look at your surroundings with new eyes. Does your journey to work take you through a wind-tunnel of monstrous modern office blocks? Do you dread walking through a litter-strewn underpass? Do you resent the public money wasted on a historic but mediocre municipal building? Don't put up with it – do something!
- Melanie Thompson gives a step-by-step guide to campaigning for change.
- Paula Hawkins takes you through the planning maze and explains the vagaries of Value Added Tax.