Are your fields boring?

See below from today's Daily Telegraph. It isn't all about the countryside being "pretty" but also it's vital role in supporting wildlife and plants which keep our whole Eco system going...

By Rowena Mason, Political Correspondent10:00PM BST 21 Jun 2013
Developers should be allowed to build on fields if they are boring, the planning minister has said, after a fellow Tory minister accused him and David Cameron failing to protect the countryside.

In controversial comments, Nick Boles said people must be "realistic" about the need for more housing, which will mean building on "environmentally uninteresting" green spaces.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/greenpolitics/planning/10135739/Build-on-boring-fields-says-minister.html

He made the remarks in a letter to Anna Soubry, a Conservative health minister, who wrote to his department to warn that housing is being built on the Green Belt despite David Cameron's "repeated assurances" it will be protected.