Prince's plans

Your focus on allegations of a style bias ( Prince offers to take on key planning role , 29 November) prompts me to disclose the Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment' underlying principles. Unlike the critical elite, with its allegiance to often vain statement buildings by famous architects, our bias is toward design in service of walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoods, linked by streets and squares and landscape. A design review panel would be slanted in favour of buildings and communities for people, rather than designers, and for modernity and innovation as a means to building natural and social capital, delight and local distinctiveness. Surely there is room for this kind of vision, alongside the "shock and awe" approach of the past few decades? Hank Dittmar Chief executive, The Prince's Foundation for the Built Environment