0 mixed up and in no particular order:
And yet, many potential loci of design are, as it were, higgledy-piggledy.
To return to the higgledy-piggledy, hotch-potch state of affairs that existed in this field prior to 1948 is unthinkable.
The consequence is that you have this higgledy-piggledy development where you have working-class dwellings practically up against belching chimneys, smoke, dirt and such things.
It seems to me that many of them have been spatchcocked together in a higgledy-piggledy way, with neither rhyme nor reason.
Many of them, as we all know, are afflicted with what is commonly called blight—neglected, with higgledy-piggledy development, lacking dignity or beauty.
The result is that delegated legislation is haphazard and higgledy-piggledy.
Inevitably, many of those building projects were hastily conceived, haphazard and higgledy-piggledy.
That higgledy-piggledy way of progressing has brought us to our current state.