The timing could not be much worse. Hardly has the Prince of Wales finished publicly intoning his familiar mantra about protecting the countryside, than his Duchy of Cornwall is revealed to be doing a feasibility study on whether to build a vast housing estate on some of the country’s most cherished pastures.
Last Sunday, Charles reminded millions of viewers on BBC1’s Countryfile programme that it was important ‘to work in harmony with nature’ for the benefit of future generations.
‘We need to think about what kind of world we’re handing on to our successors,’ he declared. Indeed so. All but the most rapacious developers would agree with him .... http://www.dailymail.co.uk
