Member

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill seeks to deliver housing, energy and transport at speed, yet infrastructure is not only physical. Culture, too, is essential an infrastructure, contributing to growth, well-being, skills and identity. Just as we would not casually permit the demolition of a railway line or a power station, so too we should not allow the destruction of spaces that sustain our cultural life. After all, who wants to live in a neighbourhood stripped of cultural vitality, reduced to a landscape of shops and housing alone, with no places of creativity, encounter or shared identity?