Written by Mike Temple after viewing the Betjeman tv programme where places Betjeman loved were revisited:

​John Betjeman, we need you now;
​The country soon will be like Slough;
​There’ll be no grass to graze a cow –
​All built upon.

​The Planning Law and Councils feed
​The hungry mouths of builders’ greed –
​And they don’t build for social need –
​It’s all a “con”.

​But let us all join hand in hand
​From Axe to Tweed and make a stand
​To save our green and pleasant land –
​With your help, John.