I met the Prince of Wales the other day at a Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment (PFBE) conference. I had been invited after blogging that a quango called CABE – the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment – should cease to have a monopoly for design review provided to councils.

CABE is a lobby for modernist architecture which is now to be submerged into the Design Council. My criticism of CABE seemed to go down well with the PFBE, which is keen to do more work for local authorities.