If John Prescott's plans go ahead, many villages and small towns will lose their character, much green countryside will be lost, areas of outstanding beauty will be compromised and enormous extra pressures put on an infrastructure which is already under stress.
All to satisfy the highly suspect demands of statisticians.
-Nigel Breakspear Hove
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