Wander through many modern housing estates and you may get dispirited.

Homes stacked high in designs identical to other developments across the country, the streetscape mired with cars parked on driveways, roads and pavements. And as for being able to walk to a school, workplace or supermarket – there’s no guarantee.

If you think that’s not good enough, you’re in good company: Prince Charles thinks the same. Yet unlike the rest of us, he’s been able to do something about it. That something is called Poundbury.

Located just outside Dorset’s county town of Dorchester, plans for this new sustainable community were first revealed by the Prince in 1987.