Hardly surprising to pin down so few campaign nods towards environmental matters beyond the official Green agenda while big guns set up targets for a solar revolution, armies of jackbooting pylons and enough voracious field-eaters to render recent decades just a tasty starter.

Eye-watering mandatory housebuilding figures coated in a far more urgent construction-friendly planning system must encourage fresh gangs of speculators, and spoilers towards sites of many colours and sizesto climb aboard the beckoning economic growth bandwagon.

Some might think we’ve heard and seen this all before, not least when Nicholas “Let It Rip” Ridley was Tory Secretary of State for the Environment in the 1980s and collected the accolade of NIMBY, Not In My Back Yard, when he opposed a low-cost development close to his own upmarket property

But this much-trumpeted current Labour development dash threatens untold destruction of remaining rural values even if only so many frantic laps are completed in thousands of earmarked backyards. New towns from scratch ,sprawling additions to larger communities already on the map and cities like Norwich with a notch or two left on........

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