This is the woodland area at the end of Seymour Drive in Dartmouth, Devon, before it was cleared in December 2018. See SWNS story SWBPLtree - Residents outraged after developer cuts down massive woodland - before he secured planning permission to build homes. Residents of a small town are outraged after an area of woodland was snapped up by a property developer - who then cut down nearly all the trees before securing permission. Andy Love, 56, owns a house backing onto the land where the trees stood, and said he was shocked in December last year when the developer started lopping down trees. Several residents of Seymour Drive in Brixham, Devon, complained to South Hams District Council and it later emerged the developer didn't have planning permission. Now, the developer, Dave Holloway, is locked in a bitter dispute with the local authority but local residents say the damage has already been done and the wildlife cannot be reclaimed.