Three attacks will arrive first. They are not stupid. They are the wrong description of the design.
A Charter Borough concentrates delivery. Concentration looks like capture, exit, or a licence to dump. The answer is not tone. It is which clause still binds when the Steward is under pressure.
Attack one
Not a company town
The fear: a developer writes the rules, owns the streets, picks the tenants, and calls the result a community.
What the design actually does. The Corporation holds land in trust, not as a trading stock for a single sponsor. Residents and commercial occupiers sit on the Court. The High Steward is on a clock and can be removed. Service failure abates the levy. Twenty percent of each residential phase is reserved stock, off the open sales market, allocated to people who already work the place.
A company town has no covenant a tenant can take to a tribunal. This one does: specific performance, abatement, a works order. Capital has a franchise because it stays. It does not have a veto over the envelope.
The fear: a private city with its own law, its own police, and a border against the county.
What the design actually does. Parliament enables; the Crown grants Letters Patent for a term. Defence, borders, currency, and indictable crime stay national. The constabulary and the Crown Court are not displaced. A Charter can be revoked. Systemic insolvency or a gross breach can bring a Crown Commissioner.
The neighbour is paid, not annexed: 12.5 percent of the levy each year, plus a slice of first alienation receipts. Liaison on the Court is not a second sovereign. Opt-in on a defined footprint is the opposite of a breakaway province.
The fear: disapplying the Town and Country Planning Act is a licence to concrete a river and call it delivery.
What the design actually does. The planning cascade inside the boundary is replaced by a Pattern Book and a fourteen-day conformance clock. That is a change of procedure, not a repeal of harm. Contamination, water-table depletion, and measurable nuisance that cross the boundary remain strict liability in tort, backed by an Environmental Indemnity Bond held with the Treasury. A neighbour authority has standing on that discharge.
A podium tower, a blank primary frontage, and a missing open-space quota are refused without a jury. National habitat, water, and waste duties are not rewritten by Letters Patent. If a sponsor wants those gone, they need a statute — and a Forced Construction package that still funds the precept and the reserved stock. “Let us build first and measure later” is not that package.