Re: Heath fires

Pat Gardiner wrote:
"Jim Webster" <Jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 20:22:44 +0100, Jim Webster wrote:

Yes I can well imagine that potentially heathland has a far higher
capital value than moorland would up here, very little of it is
likely to be built on, (even with 16m sea rise due to global
warming ;-)))

Even better for the government, hundreds of acres of heathland that
was seized under wartime emergency powers have been reclassified as
"brownfield" sites, despite being generally more undeveloped than
any land
in the immediate area. This land, seized from the owners in many
cases without reparation will be sold off at inflated prices to
developers who will sell it on again at an even more inflated
prices. Income all round for the government and for party toadies.

over twenty years ago there was a bit of a fuss about one airfield
that was
taken with the writen undertaking that the previous owner or family
would have the right to buy it back at equivilent money, and
government had managed to find a loop hole and made a packet

Is that an official statement from the Country Land and Business
Association or a private initiative?

Why the question? The answer is obvious.

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