In an article in today’s Sunday Times, Sir Simon Jenkins says:

“PM ‘ has wrecked beautiful Britain’

Summary

He argues that Britain has a better record of protecting urban environments than rural ones;

“We have looked after our cities very well for decades”

“We are very good at preserving architecture. But we are now really bad at protecting the countryside and landscapes.”

Over the past year, the trust has received about 400 calls from people in towns and villages objecting to what they consider unsightly and unnecessary applications for developments on their outskirts, “Yet five years ago we used to get a handful annually,” said Jenkins.

He ends by saying: “This guerrilla warfare between developers and the countryside must be stopped.”