A planning application to create a single traveller pitch in an Orpington field has received more than 500 objections in just ten days. The plans, submitted in April, would allow space for one mobile home, one touring caravan, the erection of a dayroom and the formation of new access to the site off Shire Lane. The land is on the Green Belt but does not lie within an ‘area of outstanding natural beauty’, or any other valued landscape, so is not automatically protected, according to the application. Shire Lane Many objections express concerns about the over-development of Green Belt land. Mr G Harris, of West Wickham, said: “Need to save our local nature.