It has been announced by the government and as far as I am concerned its about time!!
I welcome the change with the garden grabbing law, for too long the corrupt councils have allowed internal development to go on based on who has influence and how that influence is applied, our villages are destroyed and towns made into bricks and mortar jungles as each bit of green is built upon.

Stop infilling the only areas that we have to live in on a daily basis and start pushing back village and town boundaries for spacious development with green areas that are covenented so they cannot ever be developed.

Don't you think that squeezing all this has contributed to the downside in their numbers, for Sparrows and Blue Tits and Bees there is more food in a traditional garden that in a field that has a crop on it for just 2 months of flowers and is completely barren during Winter.

Bring back development in a sensible way, and watch how mother nature populates it again.

The flip site is that you read on Lewisham Councils website the following, but in this case the TPO is completly ignored!!

Trees and high hedges on private property Trees are important to the quality of our lives because: •they make Lewisham a more attractive place in which to live and work
•they are a familiar and cherished feature of many parts of Lewisham
•they provide a valuable habitat for wildlife
•they act as a barrier to noise
•they produce oxygen, trap dust in their leaves and absorb carbon dioxide and other pollutants.
Because of their importance to the environment, the Town and Country Planning Act gives local authorities powers to protect trees in conservation areas, and to make tree preservation orders.