Charles Shrugs Off the Critics to Build His Welsh Poundbury

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Traditionalists love the vernacular design but the Prince of Waless model village of Poundbury has been rubbished by just as many who find the scheme outside Dorchester, Dorset, sickly sweet and Disneyesque.

Prince Charles is obviously undeterred by the criticisms because he has begun building a second, more ambitious Poundbury-style development.

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Charles Shrugs Off the Critics to Build His Welsh Poundbury

This version, called Coed Darcy and built on the site of the old Llandarcy Oil Refinery outside Port Talbot in South Wales, will be double the size of the original with 4,000 new homes. And if...

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