Shiv Malik

And certainly his, I've read his, I didn't realize he'd written several books on architecture, but I've read a few of them.

And he was such a leader in putting right, I think, a lot of the problems that had emulated from brutalism.

and he certainly had incredibly strong opinions which are still kind of resonating today right his famous kind of carbuncle speech is still like you know you can see it bouncing around in kind of architecture discourse 25 years later for me I think Prince William is actually doing something quite radical right taking land that's owned by his estate in effect and turning it into housing right it's just been recently announced that's the sort of

Radicalism, obviously, I'm clearly in empathy with.

So actually between father and son, king and prince, there's a lot there.

The land in that area is owned by a handful, most of it's owned by a handful of landowners who in some cases have been there for a long while.

In some cases, it's their home, et cetera, et cetera.

We're in conversations with them.

We've got landowners who publicly supported us.

Which is great because they want this to see this happen.

They also believe in what we believe the country is kind of on its knees at the moment, economically speaking, and needs to be revivified.

How is it acquired?

In the same way that you would acquire land, you buy it.

So we, as our own kind of company, would option the land and set it up to be bought then at a reasonable price by the development corporation at the end of the day.

Of course, there are holdouts and, you know, a development corporation will come with compulsory purchase powers.

That's what people usually go, oh, you're just there, you're going to steal all this land.

And yeah, look, I agree that compulsory purchase is a thing.

And the law says it should be a thing which is sparely used, if at all.

The development corporation will have to apply it in that way.

What are your credentials?