When people knock on your door and press copies of hand-written letters (that they have to provide in triplicate into officialdom) to the Planning Inspectorate to say how the tens of thousands of construction lorries, diggers and other vehicles will blight their lives. The residents of the old people's home (though its not called that) will suffer, not just through the noise and dirt, but the loss of a quiet walkway. There are times it is simply staggering to think that such a brutal act of greedy over-development can be countenanced, let alone be allowed. But that's the risk.