DAVID Bartram, the city council's head of highways, says the presence of litter, dog faeces and drug paraphernalia means grass cuttings cannot be collected "Eyesore claims over grass cuttings" (June 16).
So apart from an eyesore of piled-up mown grass, we have it in black and white that amongst it all we have obvious health and safety issues – dog fouling, glass and drug-related equipment, so our children are not safe to play any more.
Surely in that case, we need litter pickers urgently to keep this at a minimum.
It's obvious the mower men can't get off their machines to clear any rubbish before cutting the grass.
Apart from this, having had an engineering background, all the debris picked up in the mowers must do considerable damage to the machine. But never mind, our taxes will pay for the repairs, won't they?
Michael Orme,
Queensferry gardens
Shelton Lock.
