Issues of sustainability and environmental impact are outside of the Architectural Review Board's purview, and therefore, should not be factored into the reasoning for the vote, he said.
"The main land use issue concerns the impact of the development on the architectural and historic interest of Lower Soughton Hall, " said the report to Flintshire councillors.
But it is the people Nathaniel Kahn finds, the things they say, and the sensitivity and drama of the architectural photography that make this film so richly evocative, its emotional impact matched by its visual beauty.