From warnings about homes being turned into hotels, and development "density", to tree protection recommendations...there are many parallels between "long-term" planning policies being drawn up in 1961 and now.
60 years ago this year, the then-'Natural Beauties' Committee, which was responsible for planning at the time, asked W.H. Barrett to produce an Island Survey Interim Report before they could submit development plans for the island.
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