Sure, but a totally brand new settlement doesn’t

Solves the houses problem but now you need to create an industry scene from scratch. MK pulled that off

Whereas most plans today start on the opposite end of the spectrum - woefully inadequate beyond a decade let along a century.

Back to the 1960s argument - I am sort of astonished that most of our road network that we rely on today is only a shadow of what was conceived in the 1960s. It was originally planned to be much larger and more extensive. Yet, even the scaled back plans have lasted (and mostly coped)

I am sort of imagining wartime-esque propaganda “Nobody likes a NIMBY”. “Change is the future”. But translated into the meme internet culture

We seemingly some unique societal beliefs back in the 1950-1960s. Just doing loads of infrastructure without a care for the impact. By 2050 our road network will be approaching 100 years old. That sounds expensive(!)

In general we need extreme change to meet 2050 needs but humans hate change and that doesn’t win votes

The trouble with localism is that it gets wrapped in local politics. Far easier for central gov to come in and force something, with the local MP feigning disgust / campaigning against to save local face

Some extreme big P politics to navigate here which will come out the other side of an impartial public service as “what the hell is that”

As ever the systems and root causes for decisions arriving at the seemingly nonsensical are wide reaching and highly complex. Having pulled a few threads in local gov in my time, it’s not long before the whole structure of society is implicated at least in part.