Letter: Fears for the Shropshire countryside

Letter: The ConDems' planning laws will see vast swathes of unprotected rural England opened up to building developments.

The laws – which are reportedly already being implemented – will force a 'responsibility' on towns and villages to accept new projects, replacing the strict limits on building in rural areas that have been in place since the 1940s.

Brought about by successive governments' unlimited immigration policies, the measures threaten to open the door to a virtually unregulated proliferation of concrete – including wind farms, factories, incinerators, car parks and housing estates – on an unprecedented scale.

N Pritchard

Shrewsbury