COMMENT It is no longer about the legitimacy or paper approvals that could be done by state governments to convert any piece of land for development or mining.

Ordinary people are just concerned that change to their landscape can be done at the stroke of a pen, without them even being informed of what is happening to a particular development.

They may have bought a piece of property just at the fringe of a forest reserve, but the next thing is that a few blocks of multi-storey high buildings emerge on the forest land, creating a potential traffic congestion to the area.