Posted May 9, 200817 yr Architect's wicked wit cuts through red tape By Gordon Rayner, The Telegraph, May 6, 2008 An architect's wickedly sarcastic replies to pointless questions on a planning form have made him an unwitting champion for all those exasperated by bureaucracy. John Jessop earned a cult following among his colleagues after his withering comments were leaked in an e-mail which has been sent all round the country. After being asked to fill in a “design access statement” for a storage shed on a small farm, he wrote: “The density is like on a farm, the social context is a farm in the country, the economic context is farming in the United Kingdom in 2008 (which is not very economic), the opportunities are to store equipment inside rather than the outside, the constraint is the planning system.” ... More at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1932536/Architect's-wicked-wit-cuts-through-red-tape.htm
May 9, 200817 yr The response I've had since has been incredible, architects from as far as Scotland, Wales, Birmingham and Manchester have contacted me to say 'good on you!. Ha ha. British people speak in a manner most humourous.
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