ABSTRACT
I would suggest that none of us set out to deliberately destroy that which is good to replace it with something less acceptable. Our motivation is improvement. Yet many of our decisions are not seen to improve the situation. In Britain, as in many other countries of the world, planning procedures and public enquiries into development proposals provide the forum in which the arguments are recited. People of good intent, on all sides
of the issue, find themselves defending positions against arguments which often when analysed do not address the position being defended. The recited and much rehearsed statements, taking clearly tenable but incompatible stances, stand independent of each other. Dennis (1972) and Davies (1972) observed and documented this phenomena between the protagonists during the rebuilding of two English cities in the 1960’s.
