It has taken out the layer of bureaucracy known as regional planning and pushed responsibility down to the boroughs.

It covers 3,654 square kilometres and has powers including regional planning, public transport and tourism.

But in other areas some illegal buildings may be seen as a less serious transgression of the regional planning regulations.

Abolish the unelected tier of regional planning, allowing local communities to determine the right level of development.

That was the last time, until now, that any provincial government had attempted to deal coherently with the all-important but easily avoided challenges of regional planning.