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"Building houses will create more ‘human happiness’ than preserving fields, the Planning Minister has claimed.
"Nick Boles says the Government is determined to speed up the rate of house building, despite opposition from countryside groups.
And he said communities who refused to support the initiative risked losing their hospitals and high street shops as their populations shrank."
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"Revelations about the Duchy of Cornwall's accounts
revive the debate over the scale of Prince Charles's involvement in
fields other than waving, opening things, collecting art and
accumulating rent.
He's often accused of exceeding the
prerogatives of a constitutional monarch, most recently in successfully
lobbying a fellow royal, the Emir of Qatar, to drop Richard Rogers as architect for a housing scheme in Chelsea.
But, even if we accept the argument that he is only intervening in
aesthetics and ethics, not politics, what do his interventions really
mean?
