We know that the shortlist will feature the usual 20th-century suspects. Producers have had some difficulty finding eyesores not covered in concrete, though they do promise a few pre-1900 carbuncles. Good. It’s easy to be jaundiced about the modern world.

Two centuries ago many despised the factories marching across the landscape. Ruskin called some of the Gothic horrors put up in his name “Frankenstein’s monsters”. Now we look upon such mistakes of the past as eccentric.

Of course, it is a bit trite to apply makeover-television ethics to the landscape. But perhaps this series will highlight the inadequacies of a British planning system that so excludes the public. All I ask is that before you nominate, look hard, really hard, at what you’re nominating. Unless it’s one of these. In which case swing that demolition ball.

1. The National Centre for Life, Newcastle, and the entire back catalogue of Sir Terry Farrell, minus the ventilation shafts for the Blackwall Tunnel (cute) and his recent work, which isn’t bad.

2. St James’s Centre, Edinburgh. Ruins the city. Pull the whole thing down.

3. St George’s Wharf, Vauxhall, London (pictured). A hyperactive mutant (and not in a good way) delivering another nail in the coffin for the Thames waterfront.

4. Morrison’s Supermarket, Nelson, Lancashire. And every other design-illiterate supermarket box flung into towns with all the civic manners of a binge drinker.

5. The Victoria and Albert Museum. Yes, the V&A. OK, so I’m desperate to throw in something pre-1900. But have you ever actually looked at the building? A right mess.