No, as regards the roads it’s not premptive – it’s all a done deal.

… The Parliamentary orders were published at the end of January and we received letters through from the Highways Agency telling us we had 30 days from publication to object.

That was the bit I missed! 😮

You can’t sell houses in the area but they want to build another 6-10,000. Strikes me as being utterly utterly stupid.

I agree.

TT – as for the field craft; survival training and “capture-evasion training” this input came from a partial interview I did with someone from Cranwell about 2 years ago – since moved on and item not published.