RICS evidence to Audit Commission on local authority property

On each occasion when the Audit Commission pronounces on an important issue, professional institutions and other vested interests feel obliged to stake a claim for pre‐eminence in implementing the strategies or to flesh out the succinctly expressed principles contained in the Commission drafting. This Memorandum of Evidence from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is, unfortunately, no exception to this well‐rehearsed tradition. I have no doubt that the Royal Institute of British Architects and others will follow on with their own versions of the absolute truth as they perceive it.