WE face a tsunami of development; frictions, appeals and expense dominate.

But in a search for land supply are authorities looking to brown field sites, disused industrial areas and empty accommodation over shops in conservation and areas?

The challenge is to stay within settlement boundaries, nurturing wooded, country and wildlife habitats.

How heartening to see the HOOF photos, murals, articles, letters, TV and radio coverage pleading 'take care' of our public woods and spaces.

Ancient woodland, meadows and butterfly-filled glades are the very things that sustain many of us daily. They are at the core of our tourism industry but which moves aside for construction. So the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England has launched a campaign to map, with photo's, alternative sites.

This has cross-party political support. If you can photograph brown, industrial sites and disused buildings in the four Forest towns, please send them for nomination to: [email protected]">[email protected], tweet @CPRE with the hashtag #WasteOfSpace or post at http://www.facebookcom/CPREwasteofspace">www.facebookcom/CPREwasteofspace, or send them to CPRE, 5-11 Lavington St, London, SE1 ONZ.

The hidden beauty is that this scheme can also promote different skills in construction that aren't available in new builds.

It assists a resurgence and training or re-training of craft trades that are also dying, for example in restoration, heritage management, stained glass, stone and iron work and new build on old, to name a few.

Go on, support tourism, construction and our daily access to beauty, all at once.

– Fran Challice, Coleford.