On Saturday, muddy floodwaters stood several feet deep in the countryside surrounding the metro area.
This has not stopped growth, but it has pushed it into the greater south-east, thus spoiling the countryside across a bigger area.
Globally, the report says, watershed payments have rehabilitated 117 million hectares of countryside, a land area about as big as the entire country of South Africa.
Tony Burton of the Council for the Protection of Rural England calculates that England is losing an area of countryside about the size of Bristol every year to development.
But the council said it was too large, conflicted with the Vale's local plan and was in an area of open countryside.
Countryside rangers were called to the area where trees had been uprooted as tonnes of snow swamped 20m (65ft) of pathway.
"This was a very tall structure, bigger than Big Ben, in open countryside against the Chiltern Hills, an area of outstanding natural beauty, surrounded by small villages and conservation areas with a lot of cultural heritage and listed buildings, " he said.
The Countryside Council for Wales has confirmed that the area is a European designated conservation zone.
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In that time we have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful countryside and picturesque villages and which characterises the area.
The highly contagious virus can be carried by the wind, on the soles of shoes or on the wheels of cars, and the British countryside has become a virtual no-go area.
Harmondsworth Village in west London was designated a conservation area in 1970 but the open countryside famed for being a medieval settlement could lose its character because of the expansion of Heathrow Airport, according to English Heritage.
"Israeli warplanes penetrated our airspace at dawn today and directly bombed one of the scientific research centers responsible for raising the level of resistance and self-defense in the area of Jimraya in the Damascus countryside, " the military said in a statement aired on state-run television.
Monday, fighters from the rebel Free Syrian Army destroyed the Division of the Countryside, a government ministry, in the eastern area of Deir Ezzor, according to the Local Coordination Committees of Syria (LCC), an opposition activist network.
The 250-mile long system covers an area that goes from densely urban to glorious countryside in just a single fare, easily transporting passengers from Central London into Epping Forest or the Chiltern Hills.
The results showed that culling badgers - a natural reservoir for bovine TB - did reduce the incidence of disease in cattle within the trial area, but that infection rates increased in the surrounding countryside as badgers were displaced.
The Torbay Coast and Countryside Trust aims to protect land, buildings and natural resources in the area.
The area falls within an SSSI for its fauna and flora and was monitored by the Countryside Council for Wales.
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The Countryside Council for Wales (CCW) has added its support to a project to sustain an area of African tropical forest the size of Wales.
Although deer numbers appeared stable in the area, this was only because thousands of the animals were being pushed out into the surrounding countryside each year.
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