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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pratincol" data-source="post: 3230220" data-attributes="member: 65801">No you can't expect them to own everything but when they are given some farmland like this you would have hoped they could have done something with it.When the Council then devise the Local Plan it would be less likely they would then allocate housing for the site.They have been sitting on it for 13 years-long enough to have developed some sort of bird habitat of value.I am not surprised the locals are upset about this situation-I would be too if I lived there.There was another depressing item on the news this morning about the increase in the percentage of green-belt being lost to development.There will be a programme on Radio 4 tonight [File on 4] at 8 pm about this very subject.The housing developers are now winning 50% of appeals where planning for houses has been denied locally.You would think organisations like the RSPB would be doing all they could to stop the advance-not gifting the Council a piece of farmland on a plate to include in their Local Plan!If farmland like this is concreted over then what hope for the future?</blockquote>