I see that the Sunday Times has taken another emotive pop at developers ("Builders use loophole to flood villages with concrete", ST 3/11/13). They are always excellent headings, but not necessarily accurate (in all senses).

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Environment/article1335472.ece

Apparently, 'villages in beauty spots are under attack from property speculators'.  I was envisaging a Jam and Jerusalem meets Rourkes Drift occurrence, with a baying mob of rabid developers flying over hedgerows and kissing gates armed with spears and bows and arrows.  The local vicar barricading the entrance to the church, whilst the PTA of the local primary school catapult Rocky Road and scones at the passing infidels.  It would make a great eight-part daytime drama.  Alan Rickman as Thorgan Smeltz (property baron).  Joanna Lumley as Petuna Golightly (renowned local watercolour artist).