The English Government's press release about the launch of their New Model Design Code (MHCLG, [66]) proudly states that [a] ll new developments must meet local standards of beauty, quality and design under new rules. Another example is the New South Wales government initiative Connecting with Country which aims for everyone involved in delivering government projects to adopt the following commitment: Through our projects, we commit to helping support the health and wellbeing of Country by valuing, respecting, and being guided by Aboriginal people, who know that if we care for Country - it will care for us.[29] "Knowing that Country communicates what it needs to keep the land, water and air healthy means that we, as humans, need to ensure we are listening to those communications" (Hromek, [102]). Someone in government, set up the Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission (BBBBC) to tell professionals in England how to do things better (BBBBC, [133]). B Contents b B Introduction: Planning in the Name of Beauty b Hooman Foroughmand Araabi, Hannah Hickman and Katie McClymont B A Legal Challenge to "Beauty" in the National Planning Policy Framework 2021 b Oliver Carr B Power Elites as Arbiters of Design Quality and Beauty in the Built Environment - The English Experience Since 1947 b Richard Simmons B Beauty as Violence b Günter Gassner B On Beauty: Aboriginal Australians and the Particularity of Relationships to Place b Angelique Edmonds B Is Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder? They have been a political football since a left-wing Labour government enabled them in 1947 (HM Government, [58], S.12 et seq.). [Extracted from the article]