Lipton attacks Roger Scruton's appointment to head new housing commission

By Dave Rogers2018-11-19T07:00:00

Source: Tom Campbell

Government should have brought back Cabe rather than man ‘who wants to take us back two centuries’

Sir Stuart Lipton, who was the first chairman of Cabe when it was set up in 1999, has said the government should have revived the architecture watchdog – rather than bring in Roger Scruton to head up its new housing commission.

Asked about the appointment of the philosopher and writer to the commission called Building Better, Building Beautiful, the developer behind the City’s tallest tower, the PLP-designed 22 Bishopsgate building going up in the Square Mile, said: “I don’t welcome it. I welcome the government sponsoring quality, not style.”

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