@Cheesenibbler down tools. Just own it, you buy land, dilapidated buildings build flats, houses and rent for profit. That’s it, you make profit for yourself and your investors.
You’re trying to paint yourself as some sort of hero, that is my issue.
I’ve worked in planning, project management and development for over a decade, you can’t dress it up to me.
Planning laws were required to rebuild the Country post war as a way to actually try and build faster, while blocks shot up to house those displaced during the war.
My father was actually part of the biggest housing projects in London in the 60s and 60s, and the new ‘garden cities’ built to house the explosion in population. I lived in the now torn down Aylesbury estate Elephant and Castle.
Many of the original tower blocks and brutalist architecture backfired, the designs created while estates which enabled the growth in crime. Many of these have and are being torn down now due to concrete cancer, asbestos and other issues which came to light much later.
Planning became impossible with red tape halting growth post 80s it has actually relaxed whilst trying to protect green belts.
Glenfall disaster, was partly a consequence of those relaxed rules.