A dramatic loosening of planning laws to create a
housebuilding boom will damage local democracy and destroy swathes of
countryside by granting property developers a freer hand to build over green
fields, planning experts have warned. The new laws, part of the government’s
“Project Speed” to accelerate infrastructure projects, are intended to increase
the number of homes being planned by more than a third. But critics described
them as “an utter disaster” which would return the country to “a deregulated
dark age of development”. Read more on the Guardian website.
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Tom Allan
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*Glenisla, Angus:* Damage by squirrels is common; the mustelid less so.
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