[Pierre]

Originally Posted by Damien

Normal planning laws would work just as well and in fact where used often to block the building on grounds of architecture. So why did they feel the need to make a ban and make it specific to this type of building and not others?

Fair point, I don't know what the Swiss planning laws are like or how effective they are but the Swiss obviously want to ensure that there are no loopholes etc. We have planning laws and look at some of the stuff we get.