Another eg of mis-management ??

I can totally understand where you're coming from Gemma. You've seen this kind of thing happen over and over again for many years. I've only been surveying for a few years and I've now completely lost heart. I used to think that putting all the hours into doing voluntary survey work was a worthwhile cause. Now I realize that it doesn't matter how many partially protected reptiles or amphibians have been recorded on a site if the developers have deep pockets then anything can be gotten around. At the most it seems that all they have to do is pay someone to remove the wildlife standing in their way. At the least they just strim and bulldoze the whole site and make sure that there aren't any carcasses left laying around to be used as evidence against them.