This town, like many others at this time, is victim to the developers. What are a load of bushes to the profits of several millions for a large global company? I heard that it was Tesco that owned the field where the horses used to be. What are a bunch of bushes to that faceless entity, when they are so much to others? A source of food, of play, of enjoyment, maybe even a source of fuel eventually. Just to pull it up for some manmade sculpted tended useless shit. These areas are shut off, thorny and as inaccessible as they are inedible. And counterproductive to the raspberry and bramble bushes that once stood there.
When our path was made they pulled trees, then re-planted them, then pulled them again and had to re-plant. The remaining bushes are bare for winter now, a stub of what they were having been cut back considerably. It seems we are only allowed to enjoy them at their fullest and then they are stripped of their dignity for the rest of the year. Everything is sanitised, everything is safe. Nothing is scared, nothing is left.