Dear Simon and Kate

Thanks for you mail and apologies for the delay in responding.

You describe a familiar and depressing case of habitat loss. It is often the case that even where conditions are attached to planning approvals in an attempt to safeguard biodiversity, they are normally ignored by developers and not enforced by local authorities.

It is beyond the remit of the Trust itself to comment in detail on such matters, but I would very much like to add my personal objection and be identified as a 'Trustee of the ACRT' to help add weight. Once these sites are lost there is of course no getting them back, not to mention the need to have a network/patchwork of such sites (even if seemingly very small) to link areas together at the landscape level.