Never too late to craft a compromise on Chelsea Barracks

Judge Geoffrey Vos ruled on Chelsea Barracks:

"It would be commendable if the outcome of this judgment were that the parties, even at this late stage, started to work collaboratively together to achieve the best possible planning permission," Vos said in an 98-page judgment.

I agree entirely. 

One of the tragedies is that for whatever reasons none of the parties — the Prince, the Lord, Mr. Candy and the Emir — have seen fit to try to create a compromise which would, I am positive, make everyone quite sanguine. This dispute is and has been an entirely needless one and there is a way to do a project in the architectural style that Lord Rogers likes and would also satisfy the walkable, sustainable urbanism which Prince Charles seeks. That this whole thing has gone to court and wasted so much money and human energy is really sad and unnecessary.