Nothing to see here? Compare and contrast 1975 (building listed as Grade B) and 2022.
The BBC routinely allows any old commentator on the radio 4 programme, in the bad old days it would be ill informed (or well-paid) climate change deniers. But the general disparaging of all planning constraints, Conservation Areas and Grade B listed buildings (or Grade II if you are in England) is gaining traction and is common place.
Planning authorities may be incompetent a lot of the time and have bizarre priorities, but are often at the blunt end of political shenanigans, whether it is from central goernment and from inside. And much of it is self inflicted pain and a culture of risk-aversion. But with impossible cuts to services it is hard to see how they can begin to enforce half the things they are responsible for.
But polarising arguments that heritage is an obstacle to tackling climate change is unhelpful, and it doesn’t make a short 2 minute magazine story any better adding the ill-informed opinions of passers by or someone who has an axe to grind.
The inevitable logic of fanciful notions that we should allow double glazing without planning constraints inside Conservation Areas is that we should also be no impediment to decorate all the royal palaces and parks and their endless roofs with solar panels and wind farms and lord knows what else.