Inside 'Disneyland-like' town built by Prince Charles - with compulsory bird boxes

ok.co.uk:

Poundbury is, literally, The Town That Prince Charles Built. A new development, the first foundations of which were set down in 1993, it is HRH’s vision for a better Britain.

His aim was to create a community rather than a housing estate, somewhere providing a job for everyone and, with his eco-goals in mind, where walking is more important than driving.

After all, Charles has long been vocal over his dislike for new-build estates on the urban fringes, which require a car to pop to the shop for a loaf of bread.The heir to the throne was hell-bent on building his own town against all the odds. “Everybody was against it, I was told it was totally uneconomic.

But I’ve gone on regardless of the endless criticism because I believed in it for the long term,” said Charles. He never let the fact it’s been referred to as Dorset’s Disneyland, and, as one local said, “a bit of a Marmite place” get in his way.