A recent edition of the Courier had an excellent letter highlighting how all our East Lothian towns, set in the context of the surrounding Lammermuir Hills, are quickly becoming indistinguishable from anywhere else in the continuum of ‘Noddy-land’ developer housing.
Sadly, with this ‘closing in’ of the place or setting from countryside, there comes no debate about ‘biodiversity compensation’, or more simply put, the ‘green trade-off’ that developers should be asked to supply in return for consuming these unique locations.
Following the vast yield and supply of food for the Second World War effort, East Lothian was often referred to as the Garden County.