I NOTICE in the past few weeks people have been complaining about the council not cutting grass verges etc.

I would like to inform them and everybody else about what has been happening for years on our estate.

The Greenwood Hotel is our local and the landlady and landlord keep a clean and tidy pub inside and outside. However outside the pub the car park is never cleaned by the council so the landlord has to try and keep it tidy on his own.

Myself, along with others have picked up bottles and cartons, not from the pub but from the two shops next to the pub.

On walking my dog around the estate I am appalled at the growth of weeds. In some places they are two feet high in areas that should be cleaned by the council.

When they cut the grass verges all the cuttings are left on the pavements and walkways. I do not think this happens in more upmarket areas.

The shops in Greenwood Crescent have what appears to be a garden growing in their gutters that would not be allowed on houses.

I have mentioned just a few problems that we have had for years and it makes me wonder if the same policy applies now as it did when I was growing up on a Latchford/Westy estate.

We would go in gangs with a dog across the ship canal to Ackers Pit, Blue Bell wood and the Dingle and on many occasions when the police saw us they told us to get back on the estate where we belonged.

We all pay council tax, some more than others, so why do certain areas come out on top?

The Greenwood pub is on council land.

TOMMY SWIFT Houghton Green