Chuckle true we´ve a little more ahhh, ´flexibility´, particularly if you´ve got the neighbours on side, they´re not inconvenienced by what you might do on your own land and it´s in keeping with the local architecture.
Not quite the free for all it once was though, the authorities take more appeasement, are more on the ball generally. A lot less of the ´who you know´, so not a bad thing.