More Popular than "The Deathly Hallows" 

No 1 UK Best Seller, "Harry Potter & the Design Manual for Roads & Bridges"
(As approved by the Ministry for Magic), 

Staggeringly the eagerly awaited last in the Harry Potter series, The Deathly Hallows,   is struggling to keep pace with sales of that other page turner  The Design Manual for Roads and Bridges. Allegedly with input by no less than Vernon Dursley, this is the authoritative guide to evidence and judgments being made at various Inquiries across the UK, which include the Mottram Bypass.

• Similarly at the Hogwarts Public Inquiry, the arcane text deals with threats to the Whomping Willow  (Listed Tree, Magical, Vol 3, Class, Subsection iv, amended 2005/pub with errata CD, 2007, Fig 9, sheet vi, amended)   

 

• Hogwarts Forest (EPS Section 4, Figs and Graphs, sheet 7, Para ii,  revised within Errata CD, subection iv, footnote 

• Hogwarts itself, the school and forest have been scheduled for removal and redevelopment under the Governments housing expansion plans) (Business as usual, Supp B, Vo3, Section 5). 

The forest is Cat B Listed Magical, and thus considered to be of regional but not national importance. Currently some doubt remains as to whether this coincides with the European SAC, which would give the site additional protection, as might be required by its list of magical creatures. Hogwarts itself is a listed building, but its ownership is currently contested, (see Ownership rules, Ministry of Magic, Ed/Sc/Magic, Subsection 5, currently out of print). 

So why is the DMRB is in such hot demand? A strict adherance to DMRB evidence was posited by the Highways Agency, intended to ensure the right outcome at Inquiry, and complete reliance on a method and text that virtually no one except the Highways Agency and the Inspector has the slightest clue about.While others would be all at sea, this for them woud be "terra firma".  The loss of Hogwarts school and associated environs is seen as regrettable, but there is small likelihood of Mr Dursley's compelling case being denied for a strong public need to destroy these outmoded concessions to imagination and the natural world. 

"New homes and Concrete must come first", insisted author Mr Dursley in a rare public statement. 

Order your DMRB copy now -  though described by some as "dry" and impenetrable, this methodology cannot be questioned according to  the Inspector  - so it really must be prescribed reading.