You're right of course although I worked for Brighton Council 40+ years ago when some of the minarets on the Royal Pavilion were replaced using fibre-glass. I sometimes wonder if they are still up there :lolol:
I guess it's a bit of everyone but principally the local authority and in particular the planning committee who are at least responsible for the dross that does go up as well as for preventing sensitive regeneration. Instead of challenging architects and designers to build for the future but...
It's been many years since I lived in the city but every time I return I find myself giving another little sigh and a shrug at the wilful neglect of some of the most imposing seaside architecture in the world and the wholesale failure to either maintain what it has or regenerate with imagination...