Our View: Bending the rules to ruin old Nicosia

We often wonder what is the point of town planning rules and so-called zoning? Do they exist so that they can be ignored by the authorities when a developer comes asking for ‘relaxations’ of the rules? Do they exist in order to give the opportunity to the politicians to dispense favours in exchange for votes? What we have learnt over the years is that they are not inviolable, and thanks