The letter to the Sunday Times this week defending Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partner's scheme at Chelsea Barracks in West London (page 9) was an apparently principled stand by his colleagues (fellow superstars Piano, Hadid, Foster et al) in defence of the planning process.rnResponding to Prince Charles' attempts to get Rogers fired from the high-profile residential development, they wrote: 'Behind-the-scenes lobbying by the prince should not be used to skew the course of an open and democratic planning process.'rnMany readers who spend their lives despairing of same process will feel this to be a bit rich. One wonders how much of the day-to-day realities of planning the august signatories really have, and also why theirrnfastidious commitment didn't encourage them to play a bigger role in the debate around planning that has been raging for the last couple of years. Where was their input during the Killian Pretty Review? Where was their torrent of response to the Planning White Paper? Foster didn't even vote on the planning bill.
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