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The town planner must also ensure some kind of consistency in the overall look and feel of the city, so there well may well be a set of build planning policies such as those found in cities like Pretoria in South Africa. Properties can ; properties cannot be taller than the hight height of the Jacaranda trees, or those found in the Cotswold in the UK, ; properties must be built using Cotswold stone, or as in Aberdeen in Scotland, properties must be built using Aberdeenshire stone, or finally the policy of Stratford Upon Avon; that no properties must be taller than the tree line of an area. These policies are designed to make these environments pleasant places to live. But what about the situation where you buy a property off-plan in a new estate with an understanding that all properties in the estate that you have bought into will be off are off a similar styling, but someone on the estate has managed to get permission to built build a monstrosity next door to you that can only be described as an apartment block. I'm sure you would have a few objections, but why? The problem here is that there seems to be poor governance at work.
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