IT seems, to me, a kind of madness that your letters pages are full of bemoaning the loss of Green Belt land, whilst cursing the weeds on their pavements.

In our urge to control, modernise and make tidy we will lose the living green in the small places as well as the more obvious ones.

With more people choosing to obliterate their gardens under block-paving and gravel it's vital we allow room for nature elsewhere - for our own sakes as well as for the pollinators.

Is a pristine state more important than a butterfly, bee or bird?

It isn't only the pesticides that are wiping them out and unless we get our priorities right - and change our prospectives - we risk far more than our lovely fields.

Mrs Palin, Prenton.