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I think there is a temptation to say, “Oh well, this is a nice to have but look at how difficult things are and how much we need housing. We can’t afford to protect this”. But I want to make the case that we have, I think most people will agree, real problems in our society and our communities with disillusionment, anger, a sense of displacement, the distrust of politics, and the feeling that people do not have something to cling on to or belong to. Villages have the history, and if it has been half-forgotten, it can be recovered, but not if they are all built over and linked together and lose that identity.