"So - pigs in; soulless modern developments out."

Amen. In my 'other' village, they souled off/out the playing field and antiquated but perfectly functional village hall where the jumbles etc. used to be, bulldozed it all, built a vomit inducing 'executive estate' of faux classical houses, and a big shiny new village hall with massive car park, which at night looks like something like a cross between an undercover shopping centre and airport. At least the residents of the faux classical executive estate complain about the noise of village hall traffic. Haha! And the local youths have somewhere to gather late at night too now... Before, the poor fuckers had to sit at the bus stop!