I NOTE with bewildered interest the letter from Cllr Liz Grey regarding Hoylake beach (October 16 - Lifelong interest in protecting the environment).

It strikes me and my fellow Hoylake and Meols councillors as somewhat bizarre and even disingenuous that - along with the vast majority of local residents who merely want a clean beach for everyone to enjoy - Cllr Grey suggests that an agreement between Wirral Council and Natural England to keep Hoylake beach clear and tidy is no longer valid.

That is simply not the case.

And as a local petition of 800 names handed into council asserts, also very definitely not the view of residents.

We're not sure who it is in Hoylake that Cllr Grey speaks to, but it certainly isn't the the overwhelming number of local citizens that we, as local representatives rather than representatives of a ward in Birkenhead, do on a regular and ongoing basis.

And we have not seen any survey-based evidence suggesting that local people want an unkempt beach instead.

They want it clean - which is something they pay for through their council tax.

Perhaps Cllr Grey's political ambition of taking over from Luciana Berger MP, the untilrecently Labour MP for Liverpool Wavertree, has seen her wanting to burnish her credentials at a Westminster level while forgetting about Wirral voters.

Perhaps also she would prefer residents in Hoylake and Meols to keep their opinions to themselves?

After all, they only have to live with and pay for her decisions as regards the beach they cherish.

Cllr Andrew Gardner, Hoylake and Meols ward.