If you want to build a new home, you have to get planning permission first. And if you don't, you can be fined or forced to pull it down. That's fair enough because we need to protect our local environment (M. Howard)

It is, indeed, fair enough! If it really worked that way. Not far from where I live a gypsy family bought a piece of land in an eminently suitable place, applied for planning permission and were refused without any reason. That would not have happened had it been a group of landowners.

"There's a bye-law to say we must be on our way, and another to say we can't wander (Ewan McColl)"