Planning reforms could bring doom

The new Planning White Paper could open the way to destruction of threatened wildlife areas, by weakening planning restrictions. For example, long-term readers of Bird Watching will remember John Gooders' repeated concerns, in his column, about the threat of a developed Lydd Airport to the Dungeness area. Now, the RSPB are seeing this as a very real danger.
For more on the RSPB's stance, see here.